But [insolently] they said, "Our Lord, lengthen the distance between our journeys," and wronged themselves, so We made them narrations1 and dispersed them in total dispersion. Indeed in that are signs for everyone patient and grateful.
Translation: Saheeh International (English)
1 Stories related to others as lessons or examples.
وَمَزَّقۡنَٰهُمۡand We dispersed themwamazzaqnāhum
كُلَّ(in) a totalkulla
مُمَزَّقٍۚdispersionmumazzaqin
إِنَّIndeedinna
فِيinfī
ذَٰلِكَthatdhālika
لَأٓيَٰتٖsurely (are) Signslaāyātin
لِّكُلِّfor everyonelikulli
صَبَّارٖpatientṣabbārin
شَكُورٖ(and) gratefulshakūrin
Tafsir
But they arrogantly rejected Allah's favour of facilitating their journey and they said: “Our Lord, make our journeys longer by removing those cities in between so that we can have a taste of the exhaustion of travelling, and we can make clear the excellence of our riding mounts”. And they wronged themselves by arrogantly rejecting Allah’s favour, turning away from thanking Him, so I made them into tales which those after them talk of and I totally separated between them in the lands so they cannot reach each other. In that which has been mentioned, namely favouring the people of Sheba and taking retribution from them, is a lesson for every person who is patient in is obediance to Allah, and bearing what he has been afflicted with, who is thankful for Allah’s favours on him.