Surah al-Furqan (The Criterion ) 25 : 39

وَكُلًّا ضَرَبْنَا لَهُ ٱلْأَمْثَٰلَ ۖ وَكُلًّا تَبَّرْنَا تَتْبِيرًا

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
And for each We presented examples [as warnings], and each We destroyed with [total] destruction.

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Explanatory Note

All these peoples, as well as Lot’s township which suffered a shower of evil rained upon it, followed the same line and shared the same fate: “To each of them did We proffer lessons” so that they may take heed. But this was not to be. Hence, the outcome of their stubborn rejection of God’s message was that “each of them did We utterly annihilate."

The sūrah makes this very quick reference to all these communities, ending by mentioning the fate of Lot’s people, whose township, Sodom, the Arabs passed by on their summer trade journey to Syria. Sodom was destroyed with a volcanic rain that brought on them gases and stones, destroying the town completely. The sūrah states that they did not take heed because they did not believe in resurrection and did not hope to meet God. Hence, their hearts remained hardened. This gave rise to their objections to, and ridicule of their messengers.

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It appears from its style and subject matter that like Surah 23: al-Mu’minun (The Believers) it was also revealed during the third stage of Prophethood at Makkah. Scholars and commentators if the Qur’an like Ibn Jarir and Imam Razi have cited a tradition of Dahhak bin Muzahim that this Surah was revealed eight years before Surah 4: an-Nisa’ (The Women).

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