Surah 11. Hud, Ayah 83
| مُسَوَّمَةً عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ ۖ وَمَا هِيَ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ بِبَعِيدٍ |
| Transliteration | : | musawwamah cinda rabb -ka wa- maa hiya min az.- z.aalimen bi- baced |
| Pickthall | : | Marked with fire in the providence of thy Lord (for the destruction of the wicked). And they are never far from the wrong-doers. |
| Asad | : | marked out in thy Sustainer's sight [for the punishment of such as are lost in sin]. And these [blows of God-willed doom] are never far from evildoers!115 |
| Malik | : | specially marked by your Rabb. Such scourge is not far off from the wrongdoers! |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Marked as from thy Lord: nor are they ever far from those who do wrong! 1580 1581 |
Note - 115According to some of the earliest Qur'an-commentators
(e.g., Qatadah and 'Ikrimah, as quoted by Tabari), this
threat of ultimate doom applies to evildoers of all times
- which further supports the assumption that the
expression hijarah min sijjil has a metaphorical
connotation.
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Note - 1580If we take the words literally, they would mean that the
showers of brimstones were marked with the destiny of the
wicked as decreed by Allah.
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Note - 1581They: Arabic, hiya: some Commentators take the pronoun to
refer to the wicked cities so destroyed: the meaning then
would be: those wicked cities were not so different from
other cities that do wrong, for they would all suffer
similar punishment! Perhaps it would be better to refer
"they" to the stones of punishment by a metonymy for
"Punishment": 'punishment would not be far from any
people that did wrong.'
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According to some of the earliest Qur'an-commentators (e.g., Qatadah and 'Ikrimah, as quoted by Tabari), this threat of ultimate doom applies to evildoers of all times - which further supports the assumption that the expression hijarah min sijjil has a metaphorical connotation. |
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If we take the words literally, they would mean that the showers of brimstones were marked with the destiny of the wicked as decreed by Allah. |
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They: Arabic, hiya: some Commentators take the pronoun to refer to the wicked cities so destroyed: the meaning then would be: those wicked cities were not so different from other cities that do wrong, for they would all suffer similar punishment! Perhaps it would be better to refer "they" to the stones of punishment by a metonymy for "Punishment": 'punishment would not be far from any people that did wrong.' |
