The Holy Quran 27:58 — Surah An-Naml

Arabic text

وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِم مَّطَرًا ۖ فَسَآءَ مَطَرُ ٱلْمُنذَرِينَ

Translation

We rained a shower (of stones) on them. Evil indeed was the shower of those who were (not taken by surprise, but were) warned (about the pending punishment).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The end of the people of Lut; a lesson from these events: that is, [Allah] rained stones upon them from the sky and turned the city upside down. Shah [Abd al-Qadir] ﵀, commenting on the three stories mentioned above, writes that in the story of Sulayman ﵇ it is said: “We shall come with an army which they will be unable to face.

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