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Surah Al-Isra, Ayah 58 (17:58)

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وَإِن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا نَحْنُ مُهْلِكُوهَا قَبْلَ يَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ أَوْ مُعَذِّبُوهَا عَذَابًا …

Quran 17:58 is ayah 58 of Surah Al-Isra (“The Night Journey”), a Meccan surah of 111 ayahs. It is in Juz 15, on page 287 of the Madani Mushaf.

17:58
وَإِنمِّنقَرْيَةٍإِلَّانَحْنُمُهْلِكُوهَاقَبْلَيَوْمِٱلْقِيَٰمَةِأَوْمُعَذِّبُوهَاعَذَابًاشَدِيدًا ۚكَانَذَٰلِكَفِىٱلْكِتَٰبِمَسْطُورًا٥٨
wa-in min qaryatin illā naḥnu muh'likūhā qabla yawmi l-qiyāmati aw muʿadhibūhā ʿadhāban shadīdan kāna dhālika fī l-kitābi masṭūran

And there is no city but that We will destroy it before the Day of Resurrection or punish it with a severe punishment. That has ever been in the Register inscribed.(58)

Word by word

  1. وَإِنwa-inAnd not
  2. مِّنmin(is) any
  3. قَرْيَةٍqaryatintown
  4. إِلَّاillābut
  5. نَحْنُnaḥnuWe
  6. مُهْلِكُوهَاmuh'likūhā(will) destroy it
  7. قَبْلَqablabefore
  8. يَوْمِyawmi(the) Day
  9. ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِl-qiyāmati(of) the Resurrection
  10. أَوْawor
  11. مُعَذِّبُوهَاmuʿadhibūhāpunish it
  12. عَذَابًاʿadhābanwith a punishment
  13. شَدِيدًا ۚshadīdansevere
  14. كَانَkānaThat is
  15. ذَٰلِكَdhālikaThat is
  16. فِىfīin
  17. ٱلْكِتَٰبِl-kitābithe Book
  18. مَسْطُورًاmasṭūranwritten

Tafsir (commentary) of 17:58

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The Destruction or Torment of all Disbelieving Towns before the Hour begins

Here Allah tells us that He has decreed and it is written in Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz (The Preserved Tablet) which is with Him, that there is no town that He will not destroy by wiping out all its people or by punishing them,

عَذَاباً شَدِيداً

(with a severe torment.) either by killing them or sending calamities upon them as He wills. This will be because of their sins, as Allah says of the past nations:

وَمَا ظَلَمْنَـهُمْ وَلَـكِن ظَلَمُواْ أَنفُسَهُمْ

(We wronged them not, but they wronged themselves.) 11:101

فَذَاقَتْ وَبَالَ أَمْرِهَا وَكَانَ عَـقِبَةُ أَمْرِهَا خُسْراً

(So it tasted the evil result of its affair (disbelief), and the consequence of its affair (disbelief) was loss.) 65:9

وَكَأِيِّن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ عَتَتْ عَنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّهَا وَرُسُلِهِ

(And many a town (population) revolted against the command of its Lord and His Messengers;) 65:8 and many Ayat.

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