Surah Al Araf Ayat 161-162 Translation Tafseer

Para 9 - قَالَ الْمَلَاُ

سورة الاعراف

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بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ

7.161-162

وَ اِذْ قِیْلَ لَهُمُ اسْكُنُوْا هٰذِهِ الْقَرْیَةَ وَ كُلُوْا مِنْهَا حَیْثُ شِئْتُمْ وَ قُوْلُوْا حِطَّةٌ وَّ ادْخُلُوا الْبَابَ سُجَّدًا نَّغْفِرْ لَكُمْ خَطِیْٓــٴٰـتِكُمْ ؕ-سَنَزِیْدُ الْمُحْسِنِیْنَ(161) فَبَدَّلَ الَّذِیْنَ ظَلَمُوْا مِنْهُمْ قَوْلًا غَیْرَ الَّذِیْ قِیْلَ لَهُمْ فَاَرْسَلْنَا عَلَیْهِمْ رِجْزًا مِّنَ السَّمَآءِ بِمَا كَانُوْا یَظْلِمُوْنَ۠ (162)

Kanz-ul-Irfan

Remember when it was said to them, “Adopt residence in this city, and eat whatever you desire and say, ‘May we be forgiven.’ And enter through the gate ˹of the city˺ prostrating; We shall forgive your sins, ˹and˺ soon We shall grant more to the virtuous.” So the oppressors among them changed what they had been told into another statement; so We sent punishment upon them from the sky as they were oppressing.[1]

Commentary

[1]

The Israelites were commanded to enter the city by saying ‘حِطَّۃٌ’ which is an expression of repentance and seeking forgiveness, however, they entered by saying ‘حِنْطَۃٌ فِیْ شَعِیْرَۃٍ’ mockingly; they were afflicted with punishment in the form of the plague which killed twenty four thousand Israelites within moments.