Surah Al-Mulk 67:17
سُورَةُ المُلۡكِ · Meccan · Verse 17 of 30
أَمْ أَمِنتُم مَّن فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ أَن يُرْسِلَ عَلَيْكُمْ حَاصِبًۭا ۖ فَسَتَعْلَمُونَ كَيْفَ نَذِيرِ
Translation
Are you sure that He who is in Heaven will not send a whirlwind to pelt you with stones? You will come to know what My warning means.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Or do you feel secure that the One above will not send against you a storm of stones? Then you will know how My warning was.' al-Razi recalls the fate of the people of Lut, struck from the sky. al-Biqa'i notes the escalation, first the earth beneath, now the sky above, hemming false security in from both sides. And the sting: 'then you will know', but knowledge that arrives with the punishment is knowledge too late to help. Ask yourself: I keep deferring the reckoning with a quiet 'not yet, nothing's happened.' This verse warns that the day I finally 'know' the warning was real may be the day it can no longer save me. What am I postponing that only makes sense to face now?
Grounded in classical tafsir: al-Razi, al-Biqa'i, Ibn Kathir.
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