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Al-'Ankabut 31

Ayah 31 of 69 · Meccan

وَلَمَّا جَآءَتۡ رُسُلُنَآ إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ بِٱلۡبُشۡرَىٰ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّا مُهۡلِكُوٓاْ أَهۡلِ هَٰذِهِ ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِۖ إِنَّ أَهۡلَهَا كَانُواْ ظَٰلِمِينَ ٣١

And when Our messengers [i.e., angels] came to Abraham with the good tidings,1 they said, "Indeed, we will destroy the people of that [i.e., Lot's] city. Indeed, its people have been wrongdoers."

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 Of the birth of Isaac and his descendant, Jacob.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَلَمَّاAnd whenwalammā
  2. جَآءَتۡcamejāat
  3. رُسُلُنَآOur messengersrusulunā
  4. إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ(to) Ibrahimib'rāhīma
  5. بِٱلۡبُشۡرَىٰwith the glad tidingsbil-bush'rā
  6. قَالُوٓاْthey saidqālū
  7. إِنَّاIndeed, weinnā
  8. مُهۡلِكُوٓاْ(are) going to destroymuh'likū
  9. أَهۡلِ(the) peopleahli
  10. هَٰذِهِ(of) thishādhihi
  11. ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِۖtownl-qaryati
  12. إِنَّIndeedinna
  13. أَهۡلَهَاits peopleahlahā
  14. كَانُواْarekānū
  15. ظَٰلِمِينَwrongdoersẓālimīna

Tafsir

When the angels whom I had sent came to give good news to Abraham of Isaac and after him his son, Jacob, they said to him: We are going to destroy the people of the town of Sodom, the town of the people of Lot. Its people were wrongdoers because of the obscene act that they were doing.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran