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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

An-Nahl 16:26

Word by word

قَدْ مَكَرَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَى ٱللَّهُ بُنْيَـٰنَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْقَوَاعِدِ فَخَرَّ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلسَّقْفُ مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَأَتَىٰهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

Those before them had already plotted, but Allāh came at [i.e., uprooted] their building from the foundations, so the roof fell upon them from above them, and the punishment came to them from where they did not perceive.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

قد دبَّر الكفار من قَبْل هؤلاء المشركين المكايد لرسلهم، وما جاءوا به من دعوة الحق، فأتى الله بنيانهم من أساسه وقاعدته، فسقط عليهم السقف مِن فوقهم، وأتاهم الهلاك مِن مأمنهم، من حيث لا يحتسبون ولا يتوقعون أنه يأتيهم منه.

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