The Holy Quran 38:3 — Surah Sad

Arabic text

كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَبْلِهِم مِّن قَرْنٍ فَنَادَوا۟ وَّلَاتَ حِينَ مَنَاصٍ

Translation

(The Kuffaar should rather take a lesson from the punishment that came to previous nations of Kuffaar.) How many were the nations that We destroyed before them! Those people cried out (for help when punishment came), but it was not the time for escape. (No help reached them and they were all destroyed.)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The cause of the destruction of earlier nations: that is, they should bear in mind that it was because of this very pride and arrogance that many communities before them, having set themselves against the prophets of Allah, were ruined and destroyed. Those people, too, fought the messengers of Allah for a long time.

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