The Holy Quran 30:9 — Surah Ar-Rum

Arabic text

أَوَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرُوا۟ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَـٰقِبَةُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ كَانُوٓا۟ أَشَدَّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةً وَأَثَارُوا۟ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَعَمَرُوهَآ أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا عَمَرُوهَا وَجَآءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِٱلْبَيِّنَـٰتِ ۖ فَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ لِيَظْلِمَهُمْ وَلَـٰكِن كَانُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ

Translation

Have they (the Kuffaar) not travelled in the lands and seen what was the plight (the end) of those (who rejected Imaan) before them? Those people were (much) mightier than them (the Kuffaar of today), ploughed (up) the earth and developed it (much) more than they have developed it (yet despite all of this, they were destroyed). Their Rusul came to them (with the message of Towheed, but they rejected the message). It was not Allaah Who wronged them, but they wronged themselves (by damaging their ability to accept the truth when they committed kufr and rejected the Ambiyaa عليهم الصلاة والسلام. They were therefore responsible for the resultant punishment).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

A lesson from the condition of earlier nations: that is, great and mighty nations (for example, Ad and Thamud), who ploughed and sowed the earth and turned it into blossoming gardens, dug it up and brought forth springs and mines, advanced civilisation further than these deniers, were granted long lives and populated the earth more than they — where are…

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