وَكَمۡ
قَصَمۡنَا
مِن
قَرۡيَةٖ
كَانَتۡ
ظَالِمَةٗ
وَأَنشَأۡنَا
بَعۡدَهَا
قَوۡمًا
ءَاخَرِينَ
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How many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and raised up after them another folk!
— M. Pickthall
How many were the populations We utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples?
— A. Yusuf Ali
Read Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
The Virtue of the Qur'an Here
Allah points out the noble status of the Qur'an and urges them to recognize its worth:
لَقَدْ أَنزَلْنَآ إِلَيْكُمْ كِتَباً فِيهِ ذِكْرُكُمْ
(Indeed, We have sent down for you a Book in which there is Dhikrukum). Ibn `Abbas said: "Honor for you."
أَفَلاَ تَعْقِلُونَ
(Will yo
…The Virtue of the Qur'an Here
Allah points out the noble status of the Qur'an and urges them to recognize its worth:
لَقَدْ أَنزَلْنَآ إِلَيْكُمْ كِتَبا
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