سورة الحجر، الآية ٧٦
وَإِنَّهَا لَبِسَبِيلٍ مُّقِيمٍ ٧٦
wa-innahā labisabīlin muqīmin
And indeed, they [i.e., those cities] are [situated] on an established road.
Verse 76 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:76), 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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The towns of the people of Lot are on an existing road and can be seen by travellers who pass by.
And their place is located by a known route37.
[37] i.e., on the highway to the Levant, where the Dead Sea is now.
And verily! They (the cities) were right on the highroad (from Makkah to Syria i.e. the place where the Dead Sea is now)5.
[5] (V.15:76) Please see the Book of History by Ibn Kathir (كتاب التاريخ لابن كثير).
And lo! it is upon a road still uneffaced.
And the (cities were) right on the high-road.
And surely it is on a road that still abides.
And surely it is indeed on a way that still exists.
وَإِنَّكُمْ لَتَمُرُّونَ عَلَيْهِم مُّصْبِحِينَ …
And indeed, you pass by them in the morning …
إِنَّا نَحْنُ نُحْىِ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ وَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَدَّمُوا۟ وَءَاثَٰرَهُمْ وَكُلَّ شَىْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَٰهُ فِىٓ إِمَامٍ مُّبِينٍ
Indeed, it is We who bring the dead to life and record what they have put forth and what they left behind, and all things We have enumerated in a clear register.
