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

Muhammad 47:13

Word by word

وَكَأَيِّن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ هِىَ أَشَدُّ قُوَّةً مِّن قَرْيَتِكَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَخْرَجَتْكَ أَهْلَكْنَـٰهُمْ فَلَا نَاصِرَ لَهُمْ

And how many a city was stronger than your city [i.e., Makkah] which drove you out? We destroyed them; and there was no helper for them.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

وكثير من أهل قرى كانوا أشد بأسًا من أهل قريتك -أيها الرسول، وهي «مكة» - التي أخرجتك، دمَّرناهم بأنواع من العذاب، فلم يكن لهم نصير ينصرهم من عذاب الله.

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