Al-Anbiyaa 21:13
The Prophets · ayah 13 of 112
La tarkudoo warjiAAooila ma otriftum feehi wamasakinikumlaAAallakum tus-aloon
Saheeh International translation
Other English translations
Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+
"‘Do not try to escape. Go back to your homes and the pleasure you revelled in: you may be questioned.’"
Pickthall (classic)+
"(But it was said unto them): Flee not, but return to that (existence) which emasculated you and to your dwellings, that ye may be questioned."
Yusuf Ali (classic)+
"Flee not, but return to the good things of this life which were given you, and to your homes in order that ye may be called to account."
Tafsīr · classical commentary
Ibn Kathir
Abridged English, public domain
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Ibn Kathir
Abridged English, public domain
The Virtue of the Qur'an Here
Allah points out the noble status of the Qur'an and urges them to recognize its worth:
(Indeed, We have sent down for you a Book in which there is Dhikrukum). Ibn `Abbas said: "Honor for you."
(Will you not then understand) means, will you not understand this blessing, and accept it This is like the Ayah:
(And verily, this is indeed a Reminder for you and your people, and you will be questioned.) 43:44
How the Evildoers were destroyed
(How many a town given to wrongdoing, have We destroyed,) meaning, they were very many. This is like the Ayah:
(And how many generations have We destroyed after Nuh!) 17:17
(And many a township did We destroy while they were given to wrongdoing, so that it lie in ruins) 22:45.
(and raised up after them another people!) means, another nation which came after them.
(Then, when they sensed Our torment,) when they realized that the torment would undoubtedly come upon them, just as their Prophet had warned them,
(behold, they (tried to) flee from it.) they tried to run away.
(Flee not, but return to that wherein you lived a luxurious life, and to your homes,) This is a way of ridiculing them. It will be said to them by way of ridicule: "Do not run away from the coming torment; go back to the delights and luxuries and fine homes in which you were living." Qatadah said, "Mocking them."
(in order that you may be questioned) about whether you gave thanks for what you had.
(They cried: "Woe to us! Certainly we have been wrong- doers.") They will confess their sins when it will be of no benefit to them.
(And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is reaped, extinct.) meaning, "they will keep on saying that, admitting their wrong- doing, until We harvest them as it were, and their movements and voices come to a stop."