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Ali 'Imran 137

Ayah 137 of 200 · Medinan

قَدۡ خَلَتۡ مِن قَبۡلِكُمۡ سُنَنٞ فَسِيرُواْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ فَٱنظُرُواْ كَيۡفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلۡمُكَذِّبِينَ ١٣٧

Similar situations [as yours] have passed on before you, so proceed throughout the earth and observe how was the end of those who denied.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. قَدۡVerilyqad
  2. خَلَتۡpassedkhalat
  3. مِنfrommin
  4. قَبۡلِكُمۡbefore youqablikum
  5. سُنَنٞsituationssunanun
  6. فَسِيرُواْthen travelfasīrū
  7. فِيinfī
  8. ٱلۡأَرۡضِthe earthl-arḍi
  9. فَٱنظُرُواْand seefa-unẓurū
  10. كَيۡفَhowkayfa
  11. كَانَwaskāna
  12. عَٰقِبَةُ(the) endʿāqibatu
  13. ٱلۡمُكَذِّبِينَ(of) the deniersl-mukadhibīna

Tafsir

When the believers were tested by what happened to them on the day of Uḥud, Allah comforted them by saying that what afflicted them was part of the divinely ordained laws of life, i.e. the believers suffering trials at the hands of the disbelievers and overcoming them in the end after their trial. Similar incidents have therefore come to pass in times before them. So, travel the earth and learn from seeing what the fate of those who disbelieved in Allah and His messengers was: their houses are now empty and their power has disappeared.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran