So when the [time of] promise came for the first of them,728 We sent against you servants of Ours - those of great military might, and they probed [even] into the homes,729 and it was a promise fulfilled.
Notes
[728] i.e., the promised punishment for the first of their two transgressions.
[729] Violating their sanctity, to kill and plunder.
Verse 5 of Surah Al-Isra (17:5), a Meccan surah, is in juz 15, on page 282 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Al-Mukhtasar
When the first corruption occurred, I set against them servants of Ours, possessing great might and power, who killed and displaced them. They ransacked their homes destroying everything they passed by. Allah’s promise of that definitely occurred.
When the first of the two warnings came to pass, We sent against you some of Our slaves of great might, and they ravaged through the land4; this warning was bound to be fulfilled5.
Notes
[4] killing them and plundering.
[5] i.e., the punishment they were promised for their first transgressions.
So, when the promise came for the first of the two, We sent against you slaves of Ours given to terrible warfare. They entered the very innermost parts of your homes. And it was a promise (completely) fulfilled.
So when the time for the first of the two came, We roused against you slaves of Ours of great might who ravaged (your) country, and it was a threat performed.
When the first of the warnings came to pass, We sent against you Our servants given to terrible warfare: They entered the very inmost parts of your homes; and it was a warning (completely) fulfilled.
So when the promise for the first of the two came, We sent over you Our servants, of mighty prowess, so they went to and fro among the houses, and it was a promise to be accomplished.
Then, when the promise of the first of the two came, We cause to rise against you bondmen of Ours endowed with strict violence, and so they went (ravaging) amidst (your) residences; and it was a promise performed.
