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

Ar-Rum 30:42

Word by word

قُلْ سِيرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَٱنظُرُوا۟ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَـٰقِبَةُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلُ ۚ كَانَ أَكْثَرُهُم مُّشْرِكِينَ

Say, [O Muḥammad], "Travel through the land and observe how was the end of those before. Most of them were associators [of others with Allāh].

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

قل -أيها الرسول- للمكذبين بما جئت به: سيروا في أنحاء الأرض سير اعتبار وتأمل، فانظروا كيف كان عاقبة الأمم السابقة المكذبة كقوم نوح، وعاد وثمود، تجدوا عاقبتهم شر العواقب ومآلهم شر مآل؟ فقد كان أكثرهم مشركين بالله.

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