Al-Muminoon 23:44
The Believers · ayah 44 of 118
Thumma arsalna rusulana tatrakulla ma jaa ommatan rasooluha kaththaboohufaatbaAAna baAAdahum baAAdan wajaAAalnahumahadeetha fabuAAdan liqawmin la yu/minoon
Saheeh International translation
Other English translations
Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+
"and We sent Our messengers in succession: whenever a messenger came to a community they invariably called him a liar, so We destroyed them one after the other and made them into cautionary tales. Away with the disbelievers!"
Pickthall (classic)+
"Then We sent our messengers one after another. Whenever its messenger came unto a nation they denied him; so We caused them to follow one another (to disaster) and We made them bywords. A far removal for folk who believe not!"
Yusuf Ali (classic)+
"Then sent We our messengers in succession: every time there came to a people their messenger, they accused him of falsehood: so We made them follow each other (in punishment): We made them as a tale (that is told): So away with a people that will not believe!"
Tafsīr · classical commentary
Ibn Kathir
Abridged English, public domain
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Ibn Kathir
Abridged English, public domain
Mention of Other Nations Allah says:
(Then, after them, We created other generations.) meaning, nations and peoples.
(No nation can advance their term, nor can they delay it.) means, they are taken at the appropriate time, as decreed by Allah in His Book that is preserved with Him, before they were created, nation after nation, century after century, generation after generation, successors after predecessors.
(Then We sent Our Messengers in succession.) Ibn `Abbas said, "(This means) following one another in succession." This is like the Ayah:
(And verily, We have sent among every Ummah a Messenger (proclaiming): "Worship Allah, and avoid Taghut (all false deities)." Then of them were some whom Allah guided and of them were some upon whom the straying was justified) 16:36.
(Every time there came to a nation their Messenger, they denied him;) meaning the greater majority of them. This is like the Ayah:
(Alas for mankind! There never came a Messenger to them but they used to mock at him.) 36:30
(so We made them follow one another,) means, `We destroyed them,' as Allah says:
(And how many generations have We destroyed after Nuh!) 17:17
(and We made them as Ahadith) meaning, stories and lessons for mankind, as Allah says elsewhere:
(so, We made them as tales (in the land), and We dispersed them all totally) 34:19.