Text of verse 77:16
أَلَمْ نُهْلِكِ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ١٦
Transliteration
alam nuh'liki l-awalīna
Translation
Did We not destroy the former peoples?
Translation in another language
Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah Al-Mursalat, Verse 16
سورة المرسلات، الآية ١٦
Verse 16 of Surah Al-Mursalat (77:16), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 580 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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Tafsir of verse 16
Al-Mukhtasar
Did I not destroy the previous nations when they disbelieved in Allah and rejected their Messengers?
Other translations of verse 16
Did We not destroy the earlier nations?
Did We not destroy the ancients?
Destroyed We not the former folk,
Did We not destroy the men of old (for their evil)?
Did We not destroy the former generations?
Did We not cause the earliest people to perish;
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Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
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Al-Kahf 18:47
وَيَوْمَ نُسَيِّرُ ٱلْجِبَالَ وَتَرَى ٱلْأَرْضَ بَارِزَةً وَحَشَرْنَٰهُمْ فَلَمْ نُغَادِرْ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدًا
And [warn of] the Day when We will remove the mountains and you will see the earth exposed, and We will gather them and not leave behind from them anyone.
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Al-Ma’idah 5:109
يَوْمَ يَجْمَعُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلرُّسُلَ فَيَقُولُ مَاذَآ أُجِبْتُمْ قَالُوا۟ لَا عِلْمَ لَنَآ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ عَلَّٰمُ ٱلْغُيُوبِ
[Be warned of] the Day when Allāh will assemble the messengers and say, "What was the response you received?" They will say, "We have no knowledge. Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen" -
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Az-Zumar 39:69
وَأَشْرَقَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ بِنُورِ رَبِّهَا وَوُضِعَ ٱلْكِتَٰبُ وَجِا۟ىٓءَ بِٱلنَّبِيِّـۧنَ وَٱلشُّهَدَآءِ وَقُضِىَ بَيْنَهُم بِٱلْحَقِّ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ
And the earth will shine with the light of its Lord, and the record [of deeds] will be placed, and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought, and it will be judged between them in truth, and they will not be wronged.
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Ibrahim 14:47–48
فَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ ٱللَّهَ مُخْلِفَ وَعْدِهِۦ رُسُلَهُۥٓ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ ذُو ٱنتِقَامٍ …
So never think that Allāh will fail in His promise to His messengers. Indeed, Allāh is Exalted in Might and Owner of Retribution. …