Surah Al Qamar ayat 18 Tafsir Quran 54:18

﴿كَذَّبَتْ عَادٌ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِي وَنُذُرِ﴾
[ القمر: 18]

54:18 'Aad denied; and how [severe] were My punishment and warning.

‘Ād denied their prophet Hūd and so they were chastised. How then were My chastisement and My warnings? how then was My warning them of the chastisement before it was sent down? In other words it was justified and He explains this chastisement by saying

So did the people of Ad - the Adites -; they refused to admit the truth of Our message and they renounced their Messenger. How painful was My punishment on those who counselled deaf to admonition and wasted their lives and refused to acknowledge their Messenger

'Ad denied; then how was My torment and My warnings ( 18 )Verily, We sent against them a violently cold ( Sarsar ) wind on a day of calamity, continuous ( 19 )Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date palms ( 20 )Then, how was My torment and My warnings ( 21 )And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember; then is there any that will remember ( 22 ) The Story of 'Ad Allah states that 'Ad, the People of Hud, denied their Messenger, just as the people of Nuh did.
So, Allah sent on them, عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا ( against them a violently cold (Sarsar ) wind), means, a bitterly cold and furious wind, فِي يَوْمِ نَحْسٍ ( on a day of calamity ), against them, according to Ad-Dahhak, Qatadah and As-Suddi, مُسْتَمِرٍّ ( continuous ), upon them because the calamity, torment and destruction that they suffered in this life on that day continued with that of the Hereafter, تَنْزِعُ النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ ( Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date palms. ) The wind would pluck one of them and raise him high, until he could no longer be seen, and then violently send him down on his head to the ground.
His head would be smashed and only his body would be left, headless, كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ - فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِي وَنُذُرِ - وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِنْ مُدَّكِرٍ ( as if they were uprooted stems of date palms.
Then, how was My torment and My warnings? And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember; then is there any that will remember? )

'Ad denied; then how was My torment and My warnings ( 18 )Verily, We sent against them a violently cold ( Sarsar ) wind on a day of calamity, continuous ( 19 )Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date palms ( 20 )Then, how was My torment and My warnings ( 21 )And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember; then is there any that will remember ( 22 ) The Story of 'Ad Allah states that 'Ad, the People of Hud, denied their Messenger, just as the people of Nuh did.
So, Allah sent on them, عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا ( against them a violently cold (Sarsar ) wind), means, a bitterly cold and furious wind, فِي يَوْمِ نَحْسٍ ( on a day of calamity ), against them, according to Ad-Dahhak, Qatadah and As-Suddi, مُسْتَمِرٍّ ( continuous ), upon them because the calamity, torment and destruction that they suffered in this life on that day continued with that of the Hereafter, تَنْزِعُ النَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ ( Plucking out men as if they were uprooted stems of date palms. ) The wind would pluck one of them and raise him high, until he could no longer be seen, and then violently send him down on his head to the ground.
His head would be smashed and only his body would be left, headless, كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُنْقَعِرٍ - فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِي وَنُذُرِ - وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا الْقُرْآنَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِنْ مُدَّكِرٍ ( as if they were uprooted stems of date palms.
Then, how was My torment and My warnings? And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember; then is there any that will remember? )

( (The tribe of ) ’Aad rejected warnings) the folk of Hud denied Hud. ( Then how dreadful ) was My punishment after My warnings) see, O Muhammad, how the state of those warned by Hud became when they disbelieved in him.

'Ad (people) belied (their Prophet, Hud), then how (terrible) was My Torment and My Warnings?

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