Quran 46:24 — Al-Ahqaf, verse 24
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
When they saw a cloud approaching their valley, they said, ‘This cloud will give us rain!’ ‘No indeed! It is what you wanted to hasten: a storm-wind bearing a painful punishment
فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ عَارِضًا مُسْتَقْبِلَ أَوْدِيَتِهِمْ قَالُوا هَـٰذَا عَارِضٌ مُمْطِرُنَا ۚ بَلْ هُوَ مَا اسْتَعْجَلْتُمْ بِهِ ۖ رِيحٌ فِيهَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
falammā ra-awhu ʿāriḍan mus'taqbila awdiyatihim qālū hādhā ʿāriḍun mum'ṭirunā bal huwa mā is'taʿjaltum bihi rīḥun fīhā ʿadhābun alīmun
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Then, when they saw it as a sudden cloud coming towards their valleys, they said, 'This is a cloud, that shall give us rain!' 'Not so; rather it is that you sought to hasten -- a wind, wherein is a painful chastisement,
- Muhammad Asad
- And so, when they beheld it in the shape of a dense cloud approaching their valleys, they exclaimed, “This is but a heavy cloud which will bring us [welcome] rain!” [But Hud said:] “Nay, but it is the very thing which you [so contemptuously] sought to hasten - a wind bearing grievous suffering,
- Sahih International
- And when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said, "This is a cloud bringing us rain!" Rather, it is that for which you were impatient: a wind, within it a painful punishment,
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | فَلَمَّاfalammā | Then when | — |
| 2 | رَأَوْهُra-awhu | they saw it | رأي |
| 3 | عَارِضًۭاʿāriḍan | (as) a cloud | عرض |
| 4 | مُّسْتَقْبِلَmus'taqbila | approaching | قبل |
| 5 | أَوْدِيَتِهِمْawdiyatihim | their valleys | ودي |
| 6 | قَالُوا۟qālū | they said | قول |
| 7 | هَـٰذَاhādhā | This | — |
| 8 | عَارِضٌۭʿāriḍun | (is) a cloud | عرض |
| 9 | مُّمْطِرُنَا ۚmum'ṭirunā | bringing us rain | مطر |
| 10 | بَلْbal | Nay | — |
| 11 | هُوَhuwa | it | — |
| 12 | مَاmā | (is) what | — |
| 13 | ٱسْتَعْجَلْتُمis'taʿjaltum | you were asking it to be hastened | عجل |
| 14 | بِهِۦ ۖbihi | you were asking it to be hastened | — |
| 15 | رِيحٌۭrīḥun | a wind | روح |
| 16 | فِيهَاfīhā | in it | — |
| 17 | عَذَابٌʿadhābun | (is) a punishment | عذب |
| 18 | أَلِيمٌۭalīmun | painful | ألم |