Skip to content

Al-Furqan 40

Ayah 40 of 77 · Meccan

وَلَقَدۡ أَتَوۡاْ عَلَى ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِ ٱلَّتِيٓ أُمۡطِرَتۡ مَطَرَ ٱلسَّوۡءِۚ أَفَلَمۡ يَكُونُواْ يَرَوۡنَهَاۚ بَلۡ كَانُواْ لَا يَرۡجُونَ نُشُورٗا ٤٠

And they have already come upon the town which was showered with a rain of evil [i.e., stones]. So have they not seen it? But they are not expecting resurrection.1

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 So they do not benefit from lessons of the past.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَلَقَدۡAnd verilywalaqad
  2. أَتَوۡاْthey have comeataw
  3. عَلَىuponʿalā
  4. ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِthe townl-qaryati
  5. ٱلَّتِيٓwhichallatī
  6. أُمۡطِرَتۡwas showeredum'ṭirat
  7. مَطَرَ(with) a rainmaṭara
  8. ٱلسَّوۡءِۚ(of) evill-sawi
  9. أَفَلَمۡThen do notafalam
  10. يَكُونُواْthey [were]yakūnū
  11. يَرَوۡنَهَاۚsee ityarawnahā
  12. بَلۡNaybal
  13. كَانُواْthey arekānū
  14. لَاnotlā
  15. يَرۡجُونَexpectingyarjūna
  16. نُشُورٗاResurrectionnushūran

Tafsir

These rejecters from your people in their travel to the Levant have come by the town of people of Lot on which stones had rained down as a punishment for their immoral behaviour so that they make take heed. Were they blind to this town and did they not see it? No! Instead they do not expect to be raised from the dead and taken to account thereafter.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran