The Holy Quran 51:33 — Surah Adh-Dhariyat

Arabic text

لِنُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةً مِّن طِينٍ

Translation

"...to rain (baked) clay stones on them..."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

that is, they have been sent to punish the people of Lut, to destroy them by raining down stones of gravel upon them. The qualification مِّنْ طِيْنٍ (“of clay”) makes it clear that this was not a shower of hail, which is sometimes loosely called stones.

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