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Surah al-Anbiya' (The Prophets ) 21 : 40

بَلْ تَأْتِيهِم بَغْتَةً فَتَبْهَتُهُمْ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ رَدَّهَا وَلَا هُمْ يُنظَرُونَ

Translations

 
 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
Rather, it will come to them unexpectedly and bewilder them, and they will not be able to repel it, nor will they be reprieved.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(21:40:1)
(21:40:2)
tatīhim
it will come to them
(21:40:3)
baghtatan
unexpectedly
(21:40:4)
fatabhatuhum
and bewilder them
(21:40:5)
(21:40:6)
yastaṭīʿūna
they will be able
(21:40:7)
raddahā
to repel it
(21:40:8)
(21:40:9)
(21:40:10)
yunẓarūna
will be given respite

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Explanatory Note

This applies to the punishment in the hereafter. As for this world’s punishment, it certainly befell communities before them which ridiculed God’s messengers. Just like those communities were unable to ward off a punishment that wiped them out altogether, so these unbelievers are unable to avert their defeat and captivity. They are thus warned not to deride God’s Messenger, so as to avoid the punishment that befalls those who ridicule prophets. Such fate and punishment is bound to come, because it is part of God’s law which will inevitably take effect, just as the destruction of earlier communities, guilty of the same offence, proves.

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According to  Ibn Attiyah and Qurtubi there is consensus on this Surah being a Makki Surah -

"Both the subject matter and the style of the Surah indicate that it was sent down in the third stage of the life of the Prophet at Makkah" [Ref: Mawdudi]

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