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Surah al-Mu'minun (The Believers ) 23 : 41

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ بِٱلْحَقِّ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ غُثَآءً ۚ فَبُعْدًا لِّلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
So the shriek seized them in truth, and We made them as [plant] stubble. Then away with the wrongdoing people.

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Word Arabic word
(23:41:1)
fa-akhadhathumu
So seized them
(23:41:2)
l-ṣayḥatu
the awful cry
(23:41:3)
bil-ḥaqi
in truth
(23:41:4)
fajaʿalnāhum
and We made them
(23:41:5)
ghuthāan
(as) rubbish of dead leaves
(23:41:6)
fabuʿ'dan
So away
(23:41:7)
lil'qawmi
with the people
(23:41:8)
l-ẓālimīna
the wrongdoers

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Explanatory Note

But then no regret will be of any avail. There is no turning back. The Arabic word, ghuthā’, describing their status contains even more connotations as it refers to what floods may carry of dead plants and other discarded, worthless items that serve no purpose. Having discarded the qualities with which God has honoured them, overlooked the purpose of their existence in this life and severed their relation with the Supreme Society, they no longer deserve honourable treatment. Hence, they are like the scum that the flood carries. No one pays any regard to it.

To this humiliation is added the fact that they are deprived of God’s grace; thus no-one pays any attention to them: “And so – away with those wrongdoing folk!” Far removed are they in real life and from people’s memories and consciences.

 

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Both its style and theme indicate that it was revealed during the middle stage of Prophethood at Makkah. Reading between the lines one feels that a bitter conflict had begun between the Prophet and the disbelievers of Makkah though the persecution by them had not yet become tyrannical. It appears that the Surah was sent down during the climax of the “Famine” in Makkah (v. 75-76) which according to authentic traditions occurred during the middle stage of Prophethood. Moreover, according to a tradition related by ‘Urwah bin Zubair, Hadarat Umar who had embraced Islam by that time said, ‘This Surah was revealed in my presence and I myself observed the state of the Holy Prophet during its revelation. When the revelation ended the Holy Prophet remarked ‘On this occasion ten such verses have been sent down to me that the one who measures up to them will most surely go to Paradise’. Then he recited the initial verses of the Surah. (Ahmad and Tirmidhi)

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