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Surah al-A`raf (The Elevated Places) 7 : 98

أَوَأَمِنَ أَهْلُ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ أَن يَأْتِيَهُم بَأْسُنَا ضُحًى وَهُمْ يَلْعَبُونَ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
Or did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them in the morning while they were at play?

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(7:98:1)
awa-amina
Or felt secure
(7:98:2)
ahlu
(the) people
(7:98:3)
l-qurā
(of) the cities
(7:98:4)
(7:98:5)
yatiyahum
comes to them
(7:98:6)
basunā
Our punishment
(7:98:7)
ḍuḥan
(in) daylight
(7:98:8)
(7:98:9)
yalʿabūna
(were) playing

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Explanatory Note

Do they feel secure that God’s might will not strike in broad daylight when they are engaged in their play? Enjoyable activities, or play and fun, normally preoccupy man and totally distract his attention. A person who is absorbed in his play, having fun, can hardly resist an enemy’s strike. How can he resist a strike from God when no human being, at his most alert and highest state of preparedness can avert it?
 
The fact is that God’s might is far too powerful to be resisted by all human beings, whether they are asleep or awake, preoccupied or alert, but the sūrah points out the moments of human weakness to shake people and attract their attention. This is the effect of expecting a strike at a moment of weakness when one is totally unaware while realizing that people cannot escape such a strike even at their moments of strength. In both situations, man is totally powerless when confronted by God’s might.

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A study of its contents clearly shows that the period of its revelation is about the same as that of Surah 6: al-An’am (The Grazing Livestock), i.e. the last year of the Prophet's life at Makkah, but it cannot be asserted with certainty which of these two were sent down earlier. The manner of its admonition clearly indicates that it belongs to the same period. [Ref: Mawdudi]

It is considered the longest surah revealed during the Makkan period. Some consider this surah to have been revealed after Surah 38: Sad. [Ref: Tafsir al-Maudheei, Dr. Mustafah Muslim, vol. 3, p. 2]

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