Skip to content

Quran 21:11

Surah Al-Anbiyaa, Verse 11

Juz 17 · Page 323 · Ruku 279 · Meccan

وَكَمْ قَصَمْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍ كَانَتْ ظَالِمَةً وَأَنشَأْنَا بَعْدَهَا قَوْمًا ءَاخَرِينَ

Word by word

وَكَمْ wakam And how many قَصَمْنَا qaṣamnā We (have) shattered مِن min of قَرْيَةٍۢ qaryatin a town كَانَتْ kānat (that) was ظَالِمَةًۭ ẓālimatan unjust وَأَنشَأْنَا wa-anshanā and We produced بَعْدَهَا baʿdahā after them قَوْمًا qawman another people ءَاخَرِينَ ākharīna another people

Transliteration

Wakam qasamna min qaryatin kanatthalimatan waansha/na baAAdahaqawman akhareen

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

How many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and raised up after them another folk!

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

How many were the populations We utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples?

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

وقوله : ( وكم قصمنا من قرية كانت ظالمة ) هذه صيغة تكثير ، كما قال ( وكم أهلكنا من القرون من بعد نوح ) [ الإسراء : 17 ] .

وقال تعالى : ( فكأين من قرية أهلكناها وهي ظالمة فهي خاوية على عروشها وبئر معطلة وقصر مشيد ) [ الحج : 45 ] . وقوله : ( وأنشأنا بعدها قوما آخرين ) أي : أمة أخرى بعدهم .

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.