The Night Journey
17. Al-Isrā’
الإسراء
Page #283
17:16
وَإِذَا
أَرَدْنَا
أَن
نُّهْلِكَ
قَرْيَةً
أَمَرْنَا
مُتْرَفِيهَا
فَفَسَقُوا
فِيهَا
فَحَقَّ
عَلَيْهَا
الْقَوْلُ
فَدَمَّرْنَاهَا
تَدْمِيرًا
wa-ʾidhā ʾaradnā ʾan nuhlika qaryatan ʾamarnā mutrafīhā fa-fasaqū fīhā fa-ḥaqqa ʿalayhā l-qawlu fa-dammarnāhā tadmīran
When We decide to destroy a population, We (first) send a definite order to those among them who are given the good things of this life and yet transgress; so that the word is proved true against them: then (it is) We destroy them utterly.
— Abdullah Yusufali
And when We desire to destroy a town We command its affluent ones [to obey Allah]. But they commit transgression in it, and so the word becomes due against it, and We destroy it utterly.
