ٱلْفُرْقَان : ٤٠

  • وَلَقَدۡ And verily
  • أَتَوۡاْ they have come
  • عَلَى upon
  • ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِ the town
  • ٱلَّتِيٓ which
  • أُمۡطِرَتۡ was showered
  • مَطَرَ (with) a rain
  • ٱلسَّوۡءِۚ (of) evil
  • أَفَلَمۡ Then do not
  • يَكُونُواْ they [were]
  • يَرَوۡنَهَاۚ see it
  • بَلۡ Nay
  • كَانُواْ they are
  • لَا not
  • يَرۡجُونَ expecting
  • نُشُورٗا Resurrection
And they have already come upon the town which was showered with a rain of evil [i.e., stones]. So have they not seen it? But they are not expecting resurrection.1
Footnotes
1 - So they do not benefit from lessons of the past.
And verily they, namely, the disbelievers of Mecca, will have passed by the town on which an evil shower was rained (al-ﷺ', 'evil', is the verbal noun from saa'a, 'was evil'), that is, [it was showered] with stones. This was the principal town of the towns inhabited by the people of Lot; God destroyed its inhabitants for their committing acts of lewdness. Can it be that they have not seen it?, on their journeys to Syria, and so take heed thereof? (the interrogative is affirmative). Nay, but it is that they do not expect, they have [no] fear of [any], resurrection, and so they do not believe.