Al-Ahqaf 46:24
The Wind-Curved Sandhills · Meccan · Juz 26 · Page 505
They Thought It Rain
فَلَمَّا رَأَوۡهُ عَارِضࣰا مُّسۡتَقۡبِلَ أَوۡدِيَتِهِمۡ قَالُواْ هَٰذَا عَارِضࣱ مُّمۡطِرُنَاۚ بَلۡ هُوَ مَا ٱسۡتَعۡجَلۡتُم بِهِۦۖ رِيحࣱ فِيهَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمࣱ ٢٤
Then, when they beheld it as a dense cloud coming toward their valleys, they said: Here is a cloud bringing us rain. Nay, but it is that which ye did seek to hasten, a wind wherein is painful torment.
Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall
Meaning
When they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said: “This is a cloud bringing us rain.”
Insight
Elmalılı explains “‘arid” as a cloud appearing across the horizon: what they took for mercy was punishment.
Reflect
Seek the reality without being deceived by appearances.
This short note is based on Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır’s Turkish commentary and has not yet been reviewed by a scholar.
Elmalılı’s commentary
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