قُلْ سِيرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَٱنظُرُوا۟ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ
Qul seeroo fil ardi fanzuroo kaifa kaana 'aaqibatul mujremeen
Say, [O Muhammad], "Travel through the land and observe how was the end of the criminals."
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27:69Ayah 193
32 ayahs in An-Naml are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
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Say ‘Travel in the land and see how was the sequel for the criminals’ because of their denials — and this sequel is that they were destroyed with punishment.
Related Hadiths
Salim b. 'Abdullah reported that 'Abdullah b. Umar said: We were passing along with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) through the habitations of Hijr, and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Do not enter but weepingly the habitations of these persons who committed tyranny among themselves, lest the same calamity should fall upon you as it fell upon them. He then urged his mount to proceed quickly and pass through that valley hurriedly.
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saw a man driving a Badana and said to him, "Ride on it," and on the second or the
third time he added, "Woe to you."
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: I forbade you to visit graves, but you may now visit them, for in visiting them there is a reminder (of death).
Once the Prophet (ﷺ) stood at the top of a (looked out from upon one) castle amongst the castles (or the
high buildings) of Medina and said, "Do you see what I see? (No doubt) I see the spots where
afflictions will take place among your houses (and these afflictions will be) as numerous as the spots
where raindrops fall."
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