تِلْكَ ٱلْقُرَىٰ نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ مِنْ أَنۢبَآئِهَا ۚ وَلَقَدْ جَآءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ فَمَا كَانُوا۟ لِيُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِمَا كَذَّبُوا۟ مِن قَبْلُ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يَطْبَعُ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ
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سُورَةُ الأَعۡرَافِ
English — Sahih International
Those cities - We relate to you, [O Muhammad], some of their news. And certainly did their messengers come to them with clear proofs, but they were not to believe in that which they had denied before. Thus does Allah seal over the hearts of the disbelievers.
اردو — مودودی
یہ قومیں جن کے قصے ہم تمہیں سنا رہے ہیں (تمہارے سامنے مثال میں موجود ہیں) ان کے رسول ان کے پا س کھلی کھلی نشانیاں لے کر آئے، مگر جس چیز کو وہ ایک دفعہ جھٹلا چکے تھے پھر اُسے وہ ماننے والے نہ تھے دیکھو اس طرح ہم منکرین حق کے دلوں پر مہر لگا دیتے ہیں
Bahasa Indonesia — Kemenag
Negeri-negeri (yang telah Kami binasakan) itu, Kami ceritakan sebagian dari berita-beritanya kepadamu. Dan sungguh telah datang kepada mereka rasul-rasul mereka dengan membawa bukti-bukti yang nyata, maka mereka (juga) tidak beriman kepada apa yang dahulunya mereka telah mendustakannya. Demikianlah Allah mengunci mata hati orang-orang kafir.
Ibn Kathir
تِلْكَ الْقُرَى نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ
(Those were the towns that We relate to you) O Muhammad,
مِنْ أَنبَآئِهَا
(their story), and news,
وَلَقَدْ جَآءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِالْبَيِّنَـتِ
(And there came indeed to them their Messengers with clear proofs,) and evidences of the truth of what they brought them. Allah said in other Ayah,
وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّى نَبْعَثَ رَسُولاً
(And We never punish until We have sent a Messenger (to give warning).) 17:15, and,
ذَلِكَ مِنْ أَنْبَآءِ الْقُرَى نَقُصُّهُ عَلَيْكَ مِنْهَا قَآئِمٌ وَحَصِيدٌ وَمَا ظَلَمْنَـهُمْ وَلَـكِن ظَلَمُواْ أَنفُسَهُمْ
(That is some of the news of the towns which We relate unto you; of them, some are standing, and some have been reaped. We wronged them not, but they wronged themselves.) 11:100-101 Allah said
فَمَا كَانُواْ لِيُؤْمِنُواْ بِمَا كَذَّبُواْ مِن قَبْلُ
(but they were not such who would believe in what they had rejected before.) meaning they would not have later on believed in what the Messengers brought them, because they denied the truth when it first came to them (although they recognized it), according to the Tafsir of Ibn `Atiyyah. This explanation is sound, and is supported by Allah's statement,
وَمَا يُشْعِرُكُمْ أَنَّهَآ إِذَا جَآءَتْ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَوَنُقَلِّبُ أَفْئِدَتَهُمْ وَأَبْصَـرَهُمْ كَمَا لَمْ يُؤْمِنُواْ بِهِ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ
(And what will make you perceive that if it came, they will not believe And We shall turn their hearts and their eyes away (from guidance), as they refused to believe therein for the first time.) 6:109-110 This is why Allah said here,
كَذَلِكَ يَطْبَعُ اللَّهُ عَلَى قُلُوبِ الْكَـفِرِينَوَمَا وَجَدْنَا لاًّكْثَرِهِم
(Thus Allah does seal up the hearts of the disbelievers. And most of them We found not...) meaning, We did not find most of the previous nations,
مِّنْ عَهْدٍ وَإِن وَجَدْنَآ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَفَـسِقِينَ
(true to their covenant, but most of them We found to indeed be rebellious.) This Ayah means, We found most of them to be rebellious, deviating away from obedience and compliance. The covenant mentioned here is the Fitrah that Allah instilled in them while still in their fathers' loins, and taking their covenant, that He is their Lord, King, and that there is no deity worthy of worship except Him,. They affirmed this covenant and testified against themselves to this fact. However, they defied this covenant, threw it behind their backs and worshipped others besides Allah, having no proof or plea, nor support from rationality or by divine law. Surely, the pure Fitrah defies these actions, while all the honorable Messengers, from beginning to end, forbade them. Muslim collected the Hadith,
«يَقُولُ اللهُ تَعَالَى إِنِّي خَلَقْتُ عِبَادِي حُنَفَاءَ فَجَاءَتْهُمُ الشَّيَاطِينُ فَاجْتَالَتْهُمْ عَنْ دِينِهِمْ وَحَرَّمَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ مَا أَحْلَلْتُ لَهُم»
(Allah said, "I created My servants Hunafa' (monotheists), but the devils came to them and deviated them from their religion and prohibited them what I allowed them.") It is recorded in the Two Sahihs,
«كُلُّ مَوْلُودٍ يُولَدُ عَلَى الْفِطْرَةِ فَأَبَوَاهُ يُهَوِّدَانِهِ وَيُنَصِّرَانِهِ وَيُمَجِّسَانِه»
(Every child is born upon the Fitrah, it is only his parents who turn him into a Jew, a Christian or a Zoroastrian.)
المُيَسَّر
تلك القرى التي تَقَدَّم ذِكْرُها، وهي قرى قوم نوح وهود وصالح ولوط وشعيب، نقصُّ عليك -أيها الرسول- من أخبارها، وما كان من أَمْر رسل الله التي أرسلت إليهم، ما يحصل به عبرة للمعتبرين وازدجار للظالمين. ولقد جاءت أهلَ القرى رسلنا بالحجج البينات على صدقهم، فما كانوا ليؤمنوا بما جاءتهم به الرسل؛ بسبب طغيانهم وتكذيبهم بالحق، ومثل خَتْمِ الله على قلوب هؤلاء الكافرين المذكورين يختم الله على قلوب الكافرين بمحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم.