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Sad 38:3 كم اهلكنا من قبلهم من قرن فنادوا ولات حين مناص ٣

38:3
كَمۡ
أَهۡلَكۡنَا
مِن
قَبۡلِهِم
مِّن
قَرۡنٖ
فَنَادَواْ
وَّلَاتَ
حِينَ
مَنَاصٖ
٣
How many a generation have We destroyed before them, so they cried out (for mercy), while no time was left for having any refuge.
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

Which was revealed in Makkah

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

وَالْقُرْءَانِ ذِى الذِّكْرِ

(By the Qur'an full of reminding.) means, by the Qur'an which includes all that is in it as a reminder and a benefit to people in this life and t

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Which was revealed in Makkah

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

وَالْقُرْءَانِ ذِى الذّ
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Chapter 38, Page 453, Juz 23

1. Sād . I swear by the Qur’ān, (the book) containing advice, (this is true,) 2. but those who disbelieve are (involved) in false pride and opposition. 3. How many a generation have We destroyed before them, so they cried out (for mercy), while no time was left for having any refuge. 4. They (the pagans) wonder that a warner has come to them from among themselves. And the disbelievers say, “This is a magician, a sheer liar. 5. Has he (not) turned all the gods into a single God? It is a very strange thing indeed.” 6. And the leaders among them walked out saying (to their followers), “Walk away (from the Prophet,) and stay firm on (adhering to) your gods. This (call of the Prophet) is surely something designed (for his personal benefit). 7. We never heard of it in the classical faith (of ours). This is nothing but a false invention. 8. Is it (believable) that the message of advice has been sent down to him (alone) from among all of us?” The fact is that they are in doubt about My message; rather, they have not yet tasted My punishment. 9. Do they have the treasures of the mercy of your Lord, the Mighty, the Bountiful? 10. Or do they have the ownership of the heavens and the earth and what lies between them? Then let them ascend (to the sky) by ropes. 11. What is there (in Makkah) is just a host of the (opposing) groups that has to be defeated. 12. Even before them, the people of NūH and ‘Ād and Fir‘aun (Pharaoh), the man of stakes, 13. and Thamūd and the people of LūT and the people of Aaikah have rejected (the messengers). They were the (strong) groups. 14. All of them did nothing but declare the messengers as liars; hence, My punishment became due.

- T. Usmani

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