سورة البروج، الآية ٧
وَهُمْ عَلَىٰ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ بِٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ شُهُودٌ ٧
wahum ʿalā mā yafʿalūna bil-mu'minīna shuhūdun
And they, to what they were doing against the believers, were witnesses. 1896
[1896] After casting the believers into a trench filled with fire, they sat at its edge, watching them burn to death. This event occurred before the time of Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ) .
Verse 7 of Surah Al-Buruj (85:7), a Meccan surah, is in juz 30, on page 590 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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They were witnesses to the torture and ill-treatment they meted out to the believers, as they were present there.
and were witnessing what they did to the believers2.
[2] After the believers were casted into a trench of fire, they sat around it watching them burn to death. It occurred long before Prophet Muhammad's (ﷺ) time.
And they witnessed what they were doing against the believers (i.e. burning them).
And were themselves the witnesses of what they did to the believers.
And they witnessed (all) that they were doing against the Believers.
And they were witnesses of what they did with the believers.
And were (themselves) witnesses of what they performed against the believers.
