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Surah al-Qasas (The Stories) 28 : 59

وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ مُهْلِكَ ٱلْقُرَىٰ حَتَّىٰ يَبْعَثَ فِىٓ أُمِّهَا رَسُولًا يَتْلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِمْ ءَايَٰتِنَا ۚ وَمَا كُنَّا مُهْلِكِى ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ إِلَّا وَأَهْلُهَا ظَٰلِمُونَ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And never would your Lord have destroyed the cities until He had sent to their mother [i.e., principal city] a messenger reciting to them Our verses. And We would not destroy the cities except while their people were wrongdoers.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(28:59:1)
(28:59:2)
kāna
was
(28:59:3)
rabbuka
your Lord
(28:59:4)
muh'lika
(the) one to destroy
(28:59:5)
l-qurā
the towns
(28:59:6)
(28:59:7)
yabʿatha
He (had) sent
(28:59:8)
(28:59:9)
ummihā
their mother (town)
(28:59:10)
rasūlan
a Messenger
(28:59:11)
yatlū
reciting
(28:59:12)
(28:59:13)
āyātinā
Our Verses
(28:59:14)
(28:59:15)
kunnā
We would be
(28:59:16)
muh'likī
(the) one to destroy
(28:59:17)
l-qurā
the towns
(28:59:18)
illā
except
(28:59:19)
wa-ahluhā
while their people
(28:59:20)
ẓālimūna
(were) wrongdoers

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Explanatory Note

Yet God did not destroy those ungrateful communities without first sending a messenger to recite to them His revelations. This is the law to which He has committed Himself as an act of mercy. The purpose behind sending a messenger into the main population centre is that it becomes a focal point from which the divine message is delivered to neighbouring areas and then further a field. Thus, no one will have the excuse of not knowing the divine message. The Prophet was sent to Makkah, the main centre in Arabia, warning its people of the fate that befell earlier communities which denied their messengers after receiving God’s warnings. “Never would We destroy a community unless its people are intent on wrongdoing.”  Such people continue to deny God’s revelations and messages, even though they know them to be true.

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According to Ibn Abbas (a great companion of the Prophet) the Surah 26: ash-Shu’ara’ (The Poets), Surah 27: an-Naml (The Ants) and Surah 28: al-Qasas (The Story) were sent down one after the other. The language, the style and the theme also show that the period of the revelation of these three Surahs is nearly the same. Another reason for their close resemblance is that the different parts of the story of Prophet Moses are mentioned in these Surahs together to make up a complete story.

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