The Holy Quran 7:79 — Surah Al-A'raf

Arabic text

فَتَوَلَّىٰ عَنْهُمْ وَقَالَ يَـٰقَوْمِ لَقَدْ أَبْلَغْتُكُمْ رِسَالَةَ رَبِّى وَنَصَحْتُ لَكُمْ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا تُحِبُّونَ ٱلنَّـٰصِحِينَ

Translation

Saalih عليه الصلاة والسلام turned away from them and (addressing the dead nation) said, "O my people! I conveyed to you the message of my Rabb and advised you, but you seemed not to like advisors."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

it is said that Salih ﵇, after the destruction of his people, went away to Makkah the Venerated or to the land of Sham (Greater Syria), and while leaving, on seeing the heaps of their corpses, addressed them with these words — either in the same way as the Prophet ﷺ addressed those slain at Badr, or it was merely an imagined address out of grief, just as…

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