Transliteration:( Awalam yahdi lahum kam ahlaknaa min qablihim minal qurooni yamshoona fee masaakinihim; inna fee zaalika la aayaatin afalaa yasma'oon )
52. The infidels of Makkah, during their journeys would go past the desolate settlements of the previously ruined nations and they had gained information from educated people and those having knowledge of History. that at this place a certain nation had settled.another nation had settled at another place. They also knew that these people had always disobeyed Allah Almighty and opposed their Prophets for which they were destroyed. Here, mention is being made of this. From this we understand to look at the desolate settlements of the destroyed nations for the purpose of obtaining a lesson is excellent. Likewise. visiting the Mazaars of the pious servants of Allah Almighty and reflecting on their pure lives, too, is a source of faith.
26. Is it not a guidance for them: how many generations We have destroyed before them in whose dwellings they do walk about Verily, therein indeed are signs. Would they not then listen 27. Have they not seen how We drive water to the dry land that has no vegetation, and therewith bring forth crops providing food for their cattle and themselves Will they not then see
Allah says: will these people who deny the Messengers not learn from the nations who came before them, whom Allah destroyed for their rejection of His Messengers and their opposition to what the Messengers brought them of the straight path No trace is left of them whatsoever.
(Can you find a single one of them or hear even a whisper of them) (19:98). Allah says:
(in whose dwellings they do walk about) meaning, these disbelievers walk about in the places where those disbelievers used to live, but they do not see any of those who used to live there, for they have gone —
(As if they had never lived there) (11:68) This is like the Ayat:
(These are their houses in utter ruin, for they did wrong) (27:52).
(And many a township did We destroy while they were given to wrongdoing, so that it lie in ruins, and (many) a deserted well and lofty castle! Have they not traveled through the land) until:
(but it is the hearts which are in the breasts that grow blind.) (22:45-46) Allah says here:
(Verily, therein indeed are signs.) meaning, in the fact that these people are gone and have been destroyed, and in what happened to them because they disbelieved the Messengers, and how those who believed in them were saved, there are many signs, proofs and important lessons.
(Would they not then listen) means, to the stories of those who came before and what happened to them. n
(Have they not seen how We drive water to the dry land) Here Allah explains His kindness and goodness towards them by His sending water to them, whether from the sky or from water flowing through the land, water carried by rivers down from the mountains to the lands that need it at particular times. Allah says:
(to the dry land) which means the land where nothing grows, as in the Ayah,
(And verily, We shall make all that is on it a bare dry soil.) (18:8) i.e., barren land where nothing grows. Allah says here:
(Have they not seen how We drive water to the dry land that has no vegetation, and therewith bring forth crops providing food for their cattle and themselves Will they not then see) This is like the Ayah,
(Then let man look at his food: We pour forth water in abundance.) (80:24-25). Allah says here:
(Will they not then see)
(32:26) Did (these historical events) not make them realise that We destroyed many nations before them amidst whose dwellings they now move about?[39] Surely there are many Signs in this. Are they unable to hear?
39. That is, “Have they not learned any lesson from this continuous experience of history that to whichever nation a messenger came, the decision of its destiny became dependent upon the attitude it adopted with regard to him? If it rejected its messenger, it could not escape its doom. The only people to escape were those who believed in the messenger. Those who disbelieved became an object of warning for ever and ever.”
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