surah Mursalat aya 16 , English translation of the meaning Ayah.
﴿أَلَمْ نُهْلِكِ الْأَوَّلِينَ﴾
[ المرسلات: 16]
77:16 Did We not destroy the former peoples?
Tafsir Ibn Katheer in EnglishDid I not destroy the previous nations when they disbelieved in Allah and rejected their Messengers?
Muhammad Taqiud-Din alHilali
Did We not destroy the ancients?
phonetic Transliteration
Alam nuhliki alawwaleena
Abdullah Yusuf Ali - Translation
Did We not destroy the men of old (for their evil)?
Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
Did We not destroy the ancients
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77:16 Did We not destroy the former peoples? translate in arabic
Almuntakhab Fi Tafsir Alquran Alkarim
Did We not destroy those who charged Our Messengers with falsehood among the predecessors
Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(77:16) Did We not destroy many a nation of the earlier times? *8
Did We not destroy the former peoples? meaning
*8) This is an argument from history for the Hereafter, It means; "Consider your own history in the world. Whichever nations denied the Hereafter and took this worldly life to be real life and based their moral attitude on the results appearing here regarding them as the criterion of good and evil, ultimately went to their doom without exception This is a proof of the fact that the Hereafter is an actual reality overlooking and ignoring which causes the same kind of harm to a person which is caused when he chooses to close his eyes to the hard facts of life. (For further explanation, see E.N. 12 of Yunus, E.N. 86 of An-Naml, E.N. 8 of Ar-Rum, E.N. 25 of Saba).
Did We not destroy the former peoples? meaning in Urdu
کیا ہم نے اگلوں کو ہلاک نہیں کیا؟
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