سورة المائدة، الآية ١٠٢
قَدْ سَأَلَهَا قَوْمٌ مِّن قَبْلِكُمْ ثُمَّ أَصْبَحُوا۟ بِهَا كَٰفِرِينَ ١٠٢
qad sa-alahā qawmun min qablikum thumma aṣbaḥū bihā kāfirīna
A people asked such [questions] before you; then they became thereby disbelievers.287
[287] By their unwillingness to carry out what was commanded of them.
Verse 102 of Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:102), a Medinan surah, is in juz 7, on page 124 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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A nation before you had asked about things not initially revealed to them. When they were then commanded to do them, they did not carry out the order; and became disbelievers as a result.
Some people before you asked such questions, then became disbelievers as a result of that68.
[68] For not carrying out what they were commanded.
Before you, a community asked such questions, then on that account they became disbelievers.
A folk before you asked (for such disclosures) and then disbelieved therein.
Some people before you did ask such questions, and on that account lost their faith.
A people before you indeed asked such questions, and then became disbelievers on account of them.
A people even before you already asked about them; thereafter they became disbelievers in them.
وَمَا مَنَعَنَآ أَن نُّرْسِلَ بِٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ إِلَّآ أَن كَذَّبَ بِهَا ٱلْأَوَّلُونَ وَءَاتَيْنَا ثَمُودَ ٱلنَّاقَةَ مُبْصِرَةً فَظَلَمُوا۟ بِهَا وَمَا نُرْسِلُ بِٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ إِلَّا تَخْوِيفًا
And nothing has prevented Us from sending signs [i.e., miracles] except that the former peoples denied them. And We gave Thamūd the she-camel as a visible sign, but they wronged her. And We send not the signs except as a warning.
وَأَقْسَمُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ جَهْدَ أَيْمَٰنِهِمْ لَئِن جَآءَتْهُمْ ءَايَةٌ لَّيُؤْمِنُنَّ بِهَا قُلْ إِنَّمَا ٱلْـَٔايَٰتُ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ وَمَا يُشْعِرُكُمْ أَنَّهَآ إِذَا جَآءَتْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ …
And they swear by Allāh their strongest oaths that if a sign came to them, they would surely believe in it. Say, "The signs are only with [i.e., from] Allāh." And what will make you perceive that even if it [i.e., a sign] came, they would not believe. …
