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Al-An'am 6:42 ولقد ارسلنا الى امم من قبلك فاخذناهم بالباساء والضراء لعلهم يتضرعون ٤٢

6:42
وَلَقَدۡ
أَرۡسَلۡنَآ
إِلَىٰٓ
أُمَمٖ
مِّن
قَبۡلِكَ
فَأَخَذۡنَٰهُم
بِٱلۡبَأۡسَآءِ
وَٱلضَّرَّآءِ
لَعَلَّهُمۡ
يَتَضَرَّعُونَ
٤٢
We did send messengers to communities before you and put them to hardships and sufferings, so that they may supplicate in humility.
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

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Chapter 6, Page 132, Juz 7

42. We did send messengers to communities before you and put them to hardships and sufferings, so that they may supplicate in humility. 43. Why then, did they not supplicate in humility when a calamity from Us came upon them? Instead, their hearts were hardened and Satan adorned for them what they were doing. 44. Thereafter, when they forgot the advice they were given, We opened for them doors of everything, so that when they became proud of what they were given, We seized them suddenly and they were left in despair. 45. Thus, the people who did wrong were uprooted to the last man; Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.

- T. Usmani

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