{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/quran/00710.htm","path":"isl/quran/00710.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/quran/00710.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\n73. Wa-ila thamooda akhahum salihan qala ya qawmi oAAbudoo Allaha ma lakum min ilahin ghayruhu qad jaatkum bayyinatun min rabbikum hathihi naqatu Allahi lakum ayatan fatharooha ta/kul fee ardi Allahi wala tamassooha bisoo-in faya/khuthakum AAathabun aleemun\n73. To the Tham\u016bd people\n (We sent) \u1e62ali\u1e25, one\nOf their own brethren:\n He said: \"O my people!\n Worship God; ye have\n No other god but Him.\n Now hath come unto you\n A clear (Sign) from your Lord!\n This she-camel of God\n Is a Sign unto you:\n So leave her to graze\n In God's earth, and let her\n Come to no harm,\n Or ye shall be seized\n With a grievous punishment.\n74. Waothkuroo ith jaAAalakum khulafaa min baAAdi AAadin wabawwaakum fee al-ardi tattakhithoona min suhooliha qusooran watanhitoona aljibala buyootan faothkuroo alaa Allahi wala taAAthaw fee al-ardi mufsideena\n74. \"And remember how He\n Made you inheritors\n After the \u2019Ad people\n And gave you habitations\n In the land: ye build\n For yourselves palaces and castles\n In (open) plains, and carve out\n Homes in the mountains;\n So bring to remembrance\n The benefits (ye have received)\n From God, and refrain\n From evil and mischief\n On the earth.\"\n75. Qala almalao allatheena istakbaroo min qawmihi lillatheena istudAAifoo liman amana minhum ataAAlamoona anna salihan mursalun min rabbihi qaloo inna bima orsila bihi mu/minoona\n75. The leaders of the arrogant\n Party among his people said\nTo those who were reckoned\n Powerless\u2014those among them\n Who believed: \"Know ye\n Indeed that \u1e62ali\u1e25 is\n An apostle from his Lord?\"\n They said: \"We do indeed\n Believe in the revelation\n Which hath been sent\n Through him.\"\n76. Qala allatheena istakbaroo inna biallathee amantum bihi kafiroona\n76. The arrogant party said:\n \"For our part, we reject\n What ye believe in.\"\n77. FaAAaqaroo alnnaqata waAAataw AAan amri rabbihim waqaloo ya salihu i/tina bima taAAiduna in kunta mina almursaleena\n77. Then they ham-strung\n The she-camel, and insolently\n Defied the order of their Lord,\n Saying: \"O \u1e62ali\u1e25! bring about\n Thy threats, if thou art\n An apostle (of God)!\"\n78. Faakhathat-humu alrrajfatu faasbahoo fee darihim jathimeena\n78. So the earthquake took them\n Unawares, and they lay\n Prostrate in their homes\n In the morning!\n79. Fatawalla AAanhum waqala ya qawmi laqad ablaghtukum risalata rabbee wanasahtu lakum walakin la tuhibboona alnnasiheena\n79. So \u1e62ali\u1e25 left them,\n Saying: \"O my people!\n I did indeed convey to you\n The message for which\n I was sent by my Lord:\n I gave you good counsel,\n But ye love not good counsellors!\"\n80. Walootan ith qala liqawmihi ata/toona alfahishata ma sabaqakum biha min ahadin mina alAAalameena\n80. We also (sent) L\u016b\u1e6d:\n He said to his people:\n \"Do ye commit lewdness\n Such as no people\n In creation (ever) committed\n Before you?\n81. Innakum lata/toona alrrijala shahwatan min dooni alnnisa-i bal antum qawmun musrifoona\n81. \"For ye practise your lusts\n On men in preference\n To women: ye are indeed\n A people transgressing\n Beyond bounds.\"\n82. Wama kana jawaba qawmihi illa an qaloo akhrijoohum min qaryatikum innahum onasun yatatahharoona\n82. And his people gave\n No answer but this:\n They said, \"Drive them out\n Of your city: these are\nIndeed men who want\n To be clean and pure!\"\n83. Faanjaynahu waahlahu illa imraatahu kanat mina alghabireena\n83. But we saved him\n And his family, except\n His wife: she was\n Of those who lagged behind\n84. Waamtarna AAalayhim mataran faonthur kayfa kana AAaqibatu almujrimeena\n84. And we rained down on them\n A shower (of brimstone):\n Then see what was the end\n Of those who indulged\n In sin and crime!","title":"The Quran: S\u016bra VII.: A\u2019r\u0101f, or the Heigh...","type":"page"}