سورة الحجر، الآية ٧٤
فَجَعَلْنَا عَٰلِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةً مِّن سِجِّيلٍ ٧٤
fajaʿalnā ʿāliyahā sāfilahā wa-amṭarnā ʿalayhim ḥijāratan min sijjīlin
And We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of hard clay.
Verse 74 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:74), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 266 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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We turned their towns upside down and rained on them a shower of petrified clay.
and We turned their cities upside down35 and rained down on them stones of baked clay.
[35] Their nature was twisted, so their punishment was of its like.
And We turned (the towns of Sodom in Palestine) upside down and rained down on them stones of baked clay.
And We utterly confounded them, and We rained upon them stones of heated clay.
And We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay.
Thus did We turn it upside down, and rained down upon them stones of what had been decreed.
So We turned it upside-down, and We rained upon them stones of baked clay.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
لِنُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةً مِّن طِينٍ
To send down upon them stones of clay,
