وَحَرَٰمٌ عَلَىٰ قَرْيَةٍ أَهْلَكْنَٰهَآ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ
Wa haraamun 'alaa qaryatin ahlaknaahaaa annahum laa yarji'oon
And there is prohibition upon [the people of] a city which We have destroyed that they will [ever] return
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Lessons from past peoples
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It is forbidden for any town meaning it is forbidden for its people which We have destroyed that they should lā yarji‘ūna the lā is extra return that is their return to this world is prohibited.
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The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The people will establish cities, Anas, and one of them will be called al-Basrah or al-Busayrah. If you should pass by it or enter it, avoid its salt-marshes, its Kall, its market, and the gate of its commanders, and keep to its environs, for the earth will swallow some people up, pelting rain will fall and earthquakes will take place in it, and there will be people who will spend the night in it and become apes and swine in the morning.
"It was forbidden to us for a town-dweller to sell for a desert-dweller." (Sahih )
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "The last of the cities of Islam to be destroyed is Al-Madinah."
We were forbidden that a townsman should sell for a man of the desert.
that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "When the boundaries are defined and the streets are fixed, then there is no preemption."
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