Ya-Sin 36:29
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A Single Cry
إِن كَانَتۡ إِلَّا صَيۡحَةࣰ وَٰحِدَةࣰ فَإِذَا هُمۡ خَٰمِدُونَ ٢٩
It was but one Shout, and lo! they were extinct.
Translation: Marmaduke Pickthall
Meaning
It was only a single cry, and at once they were extinguished.
Insight
Elmalılı explains “extinguished” as the dying out of a fiery people who wanted to burn everything. He says it is broader to understand it as the fall of pagan Rome before the call of Jesus, not only the ruin of one town.
Reflect
Remember that nothing that trusts in its own power lasts.
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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