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Surah Hud, Verse 82

سورة هود، الآية ٨٢

11:82 Juz 12 Hizb 23 Page 231 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 11:82

فَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَٰلِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا حِجَارَةً مِّن سِجِّيلٍ مَّنضُودٍ ۝٨٢

Transliteration

falammā jāa amrunā jaʿalnā ʿāliyahā sāfilahā wa-amṭarnā ʿalayhā ḥijāratan min sijjīlin manḍūdin

Translation

So when Our command came, We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of layered hard clay, [which were]

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Verse 82 of Surah Hud (11:82), a Meccan surah, is in juz 12, on page 231 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 82

Al-Mukhtasar

When My command to destroy the people of Lot came, I turned their towns upside down by raising and overturning them together with the people; and I rained down on them stones of hard-layered baked clay that came down one after the other.

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Other translations of verse 82

When Our command came, We turned their cities upside down and rained down upon them clustered stones of baked clay,

So when Our Commandment came, We turned (the towns of Sodom in Palestine) upside down, and rained on them stones of baked clay, in a well-arranged manner one after another;

So when Our commandment came to pass We overthrew (that township) and rained upon it stones of clay, one after another,

When Our Decree issued, We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay, spread, layer on layer,-

So when Our decree came to pass, We turned them upside down and rained down upon them stones, of what had been decreed, one after another.

So as soon as Our Command came, We turned it upside-down (Literally: We made its highest lowest) and rained on it stones of baked clay tiered, (one on another).

Verse 82 word by word

  1. فَلَمَّا falammā So when
  2. جَآءَ jāa came ج ي أ
  3. أَمْرُنَا amrunā Our Command أ م ر
  4. جَعَلْنَا jaʿalnā We made ج ع ل
  5. عَٰلِيَهَا ʿāliyahā its upside ع ل و
  6. سَافِلَهَا sāfilahā its downside س ف ل
  7. وَأَمْطَرْنَا wa-amṭarnā and We rained م ط ر
  8. عَلَيْهَا ʿalayhā upon them
  9. حِجَارَةً ḥijāratan stones ح ج ر
  10. مِّن min of
  11. سِجِّيلٍ sijjīlin baked clay س ج ل
  12. مَّنضُودٍ manḍūdin (in) layers ن ض د

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  • An-Najm 53:53–54

    وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَةَ أَهْوَىٰ …

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