Surah Hud ayat 82 Tafsir Quran 11:82

﴿فَلَمَّا جَاءَ أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَالِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا حِجَارَةً مِّن سِجِّيلٍ مَّنضُودٍ﴾
[ هود: 82]

11:82 So when Our command came, We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of layered hard clay, [which were]

So when Our command for their destruction came to pass We made their uppermost that is their cities the nethermost — when Gabriel raised them to the sky and dropped them upside down to the earth and We rained upon them stones of baked clay clay baked in fire one after another

When Our command came to pass, We turned those cities - Sodom and Gomorrah- upside down and rained them with fire and successive brimstones as hard as baked clay

The Town of Lut's People is overturned and Their Destruction Allah, the Exalted, says, فَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا ( So when Our commandment came, ) This happened at sunrise. جَعَلْنَا عَـلِيَهَا ( We turned it... ) The city of Sadum ( Sodom ) سَافِلَهَا ( upside down, ) This is similar to Allah's statement, فَغَشَّـهَا مَا غَشَّى ( So there covered them that which did cover (torment with stones ).)53:54 This means, "We rained upon it with stones made of Sijjil." Sijjil is a Persian word meaning stones made of clay.
This definition has been mentioned by Ibn `Abbas and others.
Some of the scholars said that it ( Sijjil ) derived from the word Sang, which means a stone.
Some others said it means Wakil, which is clay.
In another verse Allah says, حِجَارَةً مِّن طِينٍ ( the stones of clay, ) This means clay made into strong, hard stone.
Some of the scholars said it means baked clay.
Al-Bukhari said, "Sijjil means that which is big and strong." Concerning Allah's statement, مَّنْضُودٍ ( in an array.
) Some of the scholars said that Mandud means the stones were arranged in the heavens and prepared for that ( destruction ).
Others said, مَّنْضُودٍ ( in an array. ) This word means that some of them ( the stones ) followed others in their descent upon the people of Lut.
Concerning the statement, مُّسَوَّمَةً ( Marked ) meaning the stones were marked and sealed, all of them having the names of their victims written on them.
Qatadah and `Ikrimah both said, "Musawwamah means each stone was encompassed by a sprinkling of red coloring." The commentators have mentioned that it ( the shower of stones ) descended upon the people of the town and upon the various villages around it.
One of them would be speaking with some people when a stone would strike him from the sky and kill him while he was among the people.
Thus, the stones followed them, striking the people in the entire land until they destroyed them all.
Not a single one of them remained.
Concerning Allah's statement, وَمَا هِى مِنَ الظَّـلِمِينَ بِبَعِيدٍ ( and they are not ever far from the wrongdoers. ) This means that this vengeance ( of Allah ) is not far from similar wrongdoers.
Verily, it has been reported in a Hadith of the Sunan collections, from Ibn `Abbas, which he attributed to the Prophet ,
«مَنْ وَجَدْتُمُوهُ يَعْمَلُ عَمَلَ قَوْمِ لُوطٍ فَاقْتُلُوا الْفَاعِلَ وَالْمَفْعُولَ بِه»
( Whoever you find doing the deed of Lut's people homosexuality, then kill the doer and the one who allows it to be done to him (both partners ).)

(11:82) And when Our command came to pass, We turned the town upside down, and rained on it stones of baked clay, one on another, *91

So when Our command came, We made meaning

*91).
This scourge probably took the form of a severe earthquake combined with volcanic eruptions.
The earthquake turned their dwellings upside down and by means of a volcanic eruption they were subjected to a severe rain of stones.
The expression 'stones of baked clay' perhaps refers to the stones formed by the underground heat and lava in volcanic regions.
The signs of this volcanic eruption can be noticed almost everywhere in the region south and east of the Dead Sea even today.

 

The Town of Lut's People is overturned and Their Destruction Allah, the Exalted, says, فَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا ( So when Our commandment came, ) This happened at sunrise. جَعَلْنَا عَـلِيَهَا ( We turned it... ) The city of Sadum ( Sodom ) سَافِلَهَا ( upside down, ) This is similar to Allah's statement, فَغَشَّـهَا مَا غَشَّى ( So there covered them that which did cover (torment with stones ).)53:54 This means, "We rained upon it with stones made of Sijjil." Sijjil is a Persian word meaning stones made of clay.
This definition has been mentioned by Ibn `Abbas and others.
Some of the scholars said that it ( Sijjil ) derived from the word Sang, which means a stone.
Some others said it means Wakil, which is clay.
In another verse Allah says, حِجَارَةً مِّن طِينٍ ( the stones of clay, ) This means clay made into strong, hard stone.
Some of the scholars said it means baked clay.
Al-Bukhari said, "Sijjil means that which is big and strong." Concerning Allah's statement, مَّنْضُودٍ ( in an array.
) Some of the scholars said that Mandud means the stones were arranged in the heavens and prepared for that ( destruction ).
Others said, مَّنْضُودٍ ( in an array. ) This word means that some of them ( the stones ) followed others in their descent upon the people of Lut.
Concerning the statement, مُّسَوَّمَةً ( Marked ) meaning the stones were marked and sealed, all of them having the names of their victims written on them.
Qatadah and `Ikrimah both said, "Musawwamah means each stone was encompassed by a sprinkling of red coloring." The commentators have mentioned that it ( the shower of stones ) descended upon the people of the town and upon the various villages around it.
One of them would be speaking with some people when a stone would strike him from the sky and kill him while he was among the people.
Thus, the stones followed them, striking the people in the entire land until they destroyed them all.
Not a single one of them remained.
Concerning Allah's statement, وَمَا هِى مِنَ الظَّـلِمِينَ بِبَعِيدٍ ( and they are not ever far from the wrongdoers. ) This means that this vengeance ( of Allah ) is not far from similar wrongdoers.
Verily, it has been reported in a Hadith of the Sunan collections, from Ibn `Abbas, which he attributed to the Prophet , «مَنْ وَجَدْتُمُوهُ يَعْمَلُ عَمَلَ قَوْمِ لُوطٍ فَاقْتُلُوا الْفَاعِلَ وَالْمَفْعُولَ بِه» ( Whoever you find doing the deed of Lut's people homosexuality, then kill the doer and the one who allows it to be done to him (both partners ).)

( So when Our commandment ) when Our chastisement ( came to pass ) to destroy them ( We overthrew (that township )) We turned it upside down ( and rained upon it ) upon its sodomites and those who travelled there ( stones of clay ) mixed with manure and mud, like bricks; it is also said that this means: from the first heaven, ( one after another ) in succession, one after another,

So when Our Commandment came, We turned (the towns of Sodom in Palestine) upside down, and rained on them stones of baked clay, piled up;

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