Surah Ash-Shu'ara, Ayah 161-180 — Word by Word
الشعراء
The Poets
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
idh qāla lahum akhūhum lūṭun alā tattaqūna
When their brother Lot said to them, "Will you not fear Allāh?
innī lakum rasūlun amīnun
Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger.
fa-ittaqū l-laha wa-aṭīʿūni
So fear Allāh and obey me.
wamā asalukum ʿalayhi min ajrin in ajriya illā ʿalā rabbi l-ʿālamīna
And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.
atatūna l-dhuk'rāna mina l-ʿālamīna
Do you approach males among the worlds
watadharūna mā khalaqa lakum rabbukum min azwājikum bal antum qawmun ʿādūna
And leave what your Lord has created for you as mates? But you are a people transgressing."
qālū la-in lam tantahi yālūṭu latakūnanna mina l-mukh'rajīna
They said, "If you do not desist, O Lot, you will surely be of those evicted."
qāla innī liʿamalikum mina l-qālīna
He said, "Indeed, I am, toward your deed, of those who detest [it].
rabbi najjinī wa-ahlī mimmā yaʿmalūna
My Lord, save me and my family from [the consequence of] what they do."
fanajjaynāhu wa-ahlahu ajmaʿīna
So We saved him and his family, all,
illā ʿajūzan fī l-ghābirīna
Except an old woman among those who remained behind.
thumma dammarnā l-ākharīna
Then We destroyed the others.
wa-amṭarnā ʿalayhim maṭaran fasāa maṭaru l-mundharīna
And We rained upon them a rain [of stones], and evil was the rain of those who were warned.
inna fī dhālika laāyatan wamā kāna aktharuhum mu'minīna
Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.
wa-inna rabbaka lahuwa l-ʿazīzu l-raḥīmu
And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.
kadhaba aṣḥābu al'aykati l-mur'salīna
The companions of the thicket [i.e., the people of Madyan] denied the messengers
idh qāla lahum shuʿaybun alā tattaqūna
When Shuʿayb said to them, "Will you not fear Allāh?
innī lakum rasūlun amīnun
Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger.
fa-ittaqū l-laha wa-aṭīʿūni
So fear Allāh and obey me.
wamā asalukum ʿalayhi min ajrin in ajriya illā ʿalā rabbi l-ʿālamīna
And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.