ٱلْقَصَص : ٤٥

  • وَلَٰكِنَّآ But We
  • أَنشَأۡنَا [We] produced
  • قُرُونٗا generations
  • فَتَطَاوَلَ and prolonged
  • عَلَيۡهِمُ for them
  • ٱلۡعُمُرُۚ the life
  • وَمَا And not
  • كُنتَ you were
  • ثَاوِيٗا a dweller
  • فِيٓ among
  • أَهۡلِ (the) people
  • مَدۡيَنَ (of) Madyan
  • تَتۡلُواْ reciting
  • عَلَيۡهِمۡ to them
  • ءَايَٰتِنَا Our Verses
  • وَلَٰكِنَّا but We
  • كُنَّا [We] were
  • مُرۡسِلِينَ the Senders
But We produced [many] generations [after Moses], and prolonged was their duration.1 And you were not a resident among the people of Madyan, reciting to them Our verses, but We were senders [of this message].
Footnotes
1

So they forgot and neglected the ordinances of Allāh.

[1108] The Prophet (ﷺ) had no way of obtaining this information except through Allāh's revelation.

but We brought forth generations, communities, after Moses, and life was prolonged in their case, in other words, they lived long lives and so they forgot the covenants [made with God], knowledge disappeared and revelation ceased. Then We brought you as Messenger and revealed to you the story of Moses and others. And you were not a dweller, a resident, among the people of Midian reciting to them Our revelations (tatloo 'alayhim aayaatinaa, a second predicate [after thaawiyan, 'dweller'), to know their story and inform of it; but truly We are the senders, of you [as Messenger] and [the senders] to you of the stories of former generations.