Transliteration:( Wa sakantum fee masaakinil lazeena zalamooo anfusahum wa tabaiyana lakum kaifa fa'alnaa bihim wa darabnaa lakumul amsaal )
101. Here "you settled down" denotes settling down temporarily during a journey. During their journeys, the people of Arabia would pass through the lands of Aad and Thamood and would make a stop there. Otherwise, these settlements lay totally in desolation. They were never inhabited again. It is reported in Hadith Shareef when the Holy Prophet ? with his noble Companions passed the jungles of the Thamood he said: "Do not stop here, nor drink the water from their wells. A place which has been devastated by Divine punishment cannot be populated again!" The floods of Hazrat Nuh (On whom be peace) were a punishment for the infidels, but a mercy and blessing for the believers. It is for this reason that establishing settlements on the earth became permissible after floods, although these floods had covered the entire earth.Â
102. From this emerge two issues:
1. For the proof of certain things, its publicity is deemed sufficient e.g. genealogy, marriage, locality, etc. because the links of these lands with the Aad and Thamood was proven by their fame and publicity.
2. Historical incidents cannot be rejected without any concrete reasons. However, if they are contrary to any categorical statennts of the Holy QUR'AAN, they can be rejected.
103. This tells us that the religious analogy is true because the object of the verses is to show that these people were destroyed due to their infidelity. and since you too are on infidelity, you too are worthy of being destroyed. Due to material cause partnership can be effected jointly This in jurisprudence is called analogy.
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The tafsir of Surah Ibrahim verse 45 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Ibrahim ayat 44 which provides the complete commentary from verse 44 through 46.
(14:45) You said so even though you had lived in the dwellings of those who had wronged themselves (by sinning), and you were aware how We dealt with them, and We had even explained to you all this by giving examples.
There is no commentary by Abul Maududi available for this verse.
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