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Meccan · Surah 11 of 114

Hud 11:59

Hud · ayah 59 of 123

وَتِلْكَ عَادٌۭ ۖ جَحَدُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِمْ وَعَصَوْا۟ رُسُلَهُۥ وَٱتَّبَعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَ كُلِّ جَبَّارٍ عَنِيدٍۢ

Watilka AAadun jahadoo bi-ayatirabbihim waAAasaw rusulahu wattabaAAoo amra kullijabbarin AAaneed

"And that was ʿAad, who rejected the signs of their Lord and disobeyed His messengers and followed the order of every obstinate tyrant."

Saheeh International translation

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Other English translations

Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+

"These were the Ad: they rejected their Lord’s signs, disobeyed His messengers, and followed the command of every obstinate tyrant."

Pickthall (classic)+

"And such were A'ad. They denied the revelations of their Lord and flouted His messengers and followed the command of every froward potentate."

Yusuf Ali (classic)+

"Such were the 'Ad People: they rejected the Signs of their Lord and Cherisher; disobeyed His messengers; And followed the command of every powerful, obstinate transgressor."

Tafsīr · classical commentary

Ibn Kathir

Abridged English, public domain

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وَيَسْتَخْلِفُ رَبِّى قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ

(My Lord will make another people succeed you, ) This refers to a group of people who will worship Allah alone, without associating anything with Him. This also implies that the polytheists do not bother Allah and they do not harm Him in the least with their disbelief. To the contrary, their disbelief merely harms their own selves.

إِنَّ رَبِّى عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ حَفِيظٌ

(Surely, my Lord is Guardian over all things.) This means that Allah is a Witness and Guardian over the statements of His servants and their actions. He will give them due recompense for their actions. If they do good deeds, He will reward them with good. If they do evil, He will punish them with evil.

The Destruction of the People of `Ad and the Salvation of Those among Them Who believed

وَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا

(And when Our commandment came,) This is referring to the barren wind with which Allah destroyed them, to the very last of them. The mercy and kindness of Allah, the Exalted saved Hud and his followers from this terrible punishment.

فوَتِلْكَ عَادٌ جَحَدُواْ بِآيَـتِ رَبِّهِمْ

g(Such were `Ad (people). They rejected the Ayat of their Lord) This means they disbelieved in the proofs and revelations (of Allah) and they disobeyed the Messengers of Allah ﷺ. This is due to the fact that whoever disbelieves in a Prophet, then verily, he has disbelieved in all of the Prophets, peace be upon them. There is no difference between any one of them, in the sense that it is necessary to believe in all of them. Therefore, `Ad disbelieved in Hud and their disbelief was considered disbelief in all of the Messengers.

وَاتَّبَعُواْ أَمْرَ كُلِّ جَبَّارٍ عَنِيدٍ

(and followed the command of every proud, obstinate.) This means that they abandoned following their rightly guided Messenger and they followed the command of every proud, obstinate person. Thus, they were followed in this life by a curse from Allah and His believing servants whenever they are mentioned. On the Day of Resurrection a call will be made against them in front of witnesses.

أَلا إِنَّ عَادًا كَفَرُواْ رَبَّهُمْ

(Verily, `Ad disbelieved in their Lord.)

Tafsir Saʿdi

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English translation, public domain

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Они были несправедливыми людьми и заслужили жестокое возмездие. Они отвергли знамения своего Господа и сказали пророку: «О Худ! Ты не показал нам ясного знамения» (11:53). Они продолжали упрямо отвергать его проповеди, хотя были убеждены в его правоте. Они ослушались Божьих посланников, ибо всякий, кто ослушается одного посланника, фактически ослушается всех посланников в целом, потому что они проповедовали одну-единственную религию. А наряду с этим они повиновались горделивым упрямцам, которые деспотично относились к Божьим рабам и упрямо отрицали Божьи знамения. Из всего сказанного следует, что они ослушались тех, кто искренне желал им добра и беспокоился за них, и повиновались тем, кто обманывал их и желал им погибели. И нет ничего удивительного в том, что Аллах погубил их.

Maʿārif al-Qur'ān

Mufti Shafi Usmani, English

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After that, the next eight verses (61-68) carry the story of Sayyidna Salih peace be upon him. He was sent to the people of Thamud, another branch of the tribe of ` Ad. He too invited his people to believe in Tauhid, the Oneness of Allah. As customary, his people belied him and insisted that he must first make a she-camel of a specified description come out from the rock of the mountain in front of them in order to have them believe that he was a true prophet of Allah.

Sayyidna Salih (علیہ السلام) warned them: If Allah Ta` ala shows you your custom-ordered miracles, and you still fail to believe, then, according to the customary practice of Allah, the punishment will come and destroy all of you. But, they remained obstinate and Allah Ta` a1a, in His perfect power, made the miracle they demanded manifest before them. The rock of the mountain in front of them split asunder. Out from it came the she-camel bearing the features specified by them. Allah Ta` ala ordered them not to harm that she-camel in any manner, otherwise the punishment will come upon them. But, they disobeyed this order as well, and killed the she-camel. Consequently, they were seized by Allah Ta` ala, Sayyidna Salih (علیہ السلام) and his companions were saved from the punishment, and the rest of those people were destroyed by a Sound which was severe and terrifying.

Tafsīr sourced from quran.com's open API. These are classical commentaries; for personal rulings consult a qualified scholar.

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