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Ayah

Word by Word
وَسۡـَٔلۡهُمۡ
And ask them
عَنِ
about
ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِ
the town
ٱلَّتِي
which
كَانَتۡ
was
حَاضِرَةَ
situated
ٱلۡبَحۡرِ
(by) the sea
إِذۡ
when
يَعۡدُونَ
they transgressed
فِي
in
ٱلسَّبۡتِ
the (matter of) Sabbath
إِذۡ
when
تَأۡتِيهِمۡ
came to them
حِيتَانُهُمۡ
their fish
يَوۡمَ
(on the) day
سَبۡتِهِمۡ
(of) their Sabbath
شُرَّعٗا
visibly
وَيَوۡمَ
and (on the) day
لَا
not
يَسۡبِتُونَ
they had Sabbath
لَا
(they did) not
تَأۡتِيهِمۡۚ
come to them
كَذَٰلِكَ
Thus
نَبۡلُوهُم
We test them
بِمَا
because
كَانُواْ
they were
يَفۡسُقُونَ
defiantly disobeying
وَسۡـَٔلۡهُمۡ
And ask them
عَنِ
about
ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِ
the town
ٱلَّتِي
which
كَانَتۡ
was
حَاضِرَةَ
situated
ٱلۡبَحۡرِ
(by) the sea
إِذۡ
when
يَعۡدُونَ
they transgressed
فِي
in
ٱلسَّبۡتِ
the (matter of) Sabbath
إِذۡ
when
تَأۡتِيهِمۡ
came to them
حِيتَانُهُمۡ
their fish
يَوۡمَ
(on the) day
سَبۡتِهِمۡ
(of) their Sabbath
شُرَّعٗا
visibly
وَيَوۡمَ
and (on the) day
لَا
not
يَسۡبِتُونَ
they had Sabbath
لَا
(they did) not
تَأۡتِيهِمۡۚ
come to them
كَذَٰلِكَ
Thus
نَبۡلُوهُم
We test them
بِمَا
because
كَانُواْ
they were
يَفۡسُقُونَ
defiantly disobeying

Translation

Ask them concerning the town standing close by the sea. Behold! they transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath. For on the day of their Sabbath their fish did come to them, openly holding up their heads, but on the day they had no Sabbath, they came not: thus did We make a trial of them, for they were given to transgression.
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Tafsir

And question them, O Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, in rebuke, about the city that was by the sea, bordering the Red Sea (bahr al-qulzum), and this was Eilat, [about] what befell its inhabitants, how they would transgress, violate, the Sabbath, by fishing, which they had been commanded not to do on that [day]; how (idh is an adverbial qualifier of ya'doon, 'they [would] transgress') their fish would come to them on the day of their Sabbath floating at the surface, visible at the surface of the water; but on the day they did not observe the Sabbath, when they would not consecrate the Sabbath over the other days, they would not come to them, as a trial from God. Thus were We trying them for their wickedness. And when they went to fish, the city split into three: one third joined the fishing party, another prohibited them, while a third abstained from both fishing and prohibiting.
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