(16) [3525]When We want to destroy a town, We command[3526] its pampered ones[3527], they transgress[3528] in it and then the saying becomes true to it and We completely devastate it!
[3525] After the detailing of God Almighty’s complete Justice, this shows how the rebellious come to be punished for their misdeeds (cf. al-Biqāʿī, Naẓm al-Durar). [3526] Amarnā (We command), could mean that God Almighty commands, through a Messenger, that He be obeyed (cf. al-Ṭabarī, al-Nasafī, al-Qāsimī, al-Shinqīṭī, al-Tafsīr al-Muyassar). In Yaʿqūb’s Qur’anic mode of reading, the verb reads as āmarnā, meaning to make plenty and luxuriant (some exegetes take this to be what is meant here; cf. al-Shawkānī, al-Tafsīr al-Muḥarrar). [3527] Mutrafīhā (its pampered ones) are the privileged notables who are usually in positions of power. The majority of people are but followers of these (cf. al-Ṭabarī, al-Baghawī, Ibn ʿĀshūr, al-Tafsīr al-Mukhtaṣar). Most of the influential and well-to-do Makkan idolaters belonged to this category, while the Believers were mostly the poor and unprivileged (cf. Ibn ʿĀshūr): “Like so We made into each town its chief criminals so that they may spread ˹conniving˺ plots in it; they only weave plots against themselves but they are not aware of it” (6: 123). [3528] By rebelling and not obeying God’s commands (cf. al-Ṭabarī, al-Nasafī, al-Qāsimī).
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Endpoints:
Sura translation
GET / https://quranenc.com/api/v1/translation/sura/{translation_key}/{sura_number} description: get the specified translation (by its translation_key) for the speicified sura (by its number)
Parameters: translation_key: (the key of the currently selected translation) sura_number: [1-114] (Sura number in the mosshaf which should be between 1 and 114)
Returns:
json object containing array of objects, each object contains the "sura", "aya", "translation" and "footnotes".
GET / https://quranenc.com/api/v1/translation/aya/{translation_key}/{sura_number}/{aya_number} description: get the specified translation (by its translation_key) for the speicified aya (by its number sura_number and aya_number)
Parameters: translation_key: (the key of the currently selected translation) sura_number: [1-114] (Sura number in the mosshaf which should be between 1 and 114) aya_number: [1-...] (Aya number in the sura)
Returns:
json object containing the "sura", "aya", "translation" and "footnotes".