Surah Ankabut Ayat 31 Urdu translation

Surah Ankabut Ayat 31 meaning in urdu

اور جب ہمارے فرستادے ابراہیمؑ کے پاس بشارت لے کر پہنچے تو انہوں نے اُس سے کہا "ہم اِس بستی کے لوگوں کو ہلاک کرنے والے ہیں، اس کے لوگ سخت ظالم ہو چکے ہیں"

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(29:31) When Our emissaries brought the good news *53 to Abraham, and said (to him): 'We are surely going to destroy the inhabitants *54 of this city; its inhabitants are immersed in wrong-doing.'

And when Our messengers came to Abraham with the good tidings, they meaning

*53) According to the details given of this in Surah Hud and A1-Hijr, the angels who had been sent to bring the torment on the people of the Prophet Lot, first came to the Prophet Abraham and gave him the good news of the birth of the Prophet Isaac and after him of the Prophet Jacob. Then they told him that they had been sent to destroy the people of Lot.
*54) "This habitation" refers to the territory of the people of Lot. The Prophet Abraham at that time resided in the Palestinian city of Hebron, now called AI-Khalil. A few miles to the south-east of this city lies that part of the Dead Sea, which was once inhabited by the people of Lot and which is now under sea water. It is a low-lying area and is clearly visible from the hill country of Hebron. That is why the angels, pointing towards it, had said "We are going to destroy this habitation." (See also E.N. 114 of Ash-Shu'araaa).