Surah Ali 'Imran 3:137 — translation and meaning
آل عمران · Verse 137 / 200 · Page 67
قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ سُنَنٌ فَسِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَانظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ
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Transliteration
Qad khalat min qablikum sunanum faseeroo fil ardi fanzuroo kaifa kaana 'aaqiba tul mukazzibeen
Translation
Similar situations [as yours] have passed on before you, so proceed throughout the earth and observe how was the end of those who denied.
Verse interpretation (Tafsir)
When the believers were tested by what happened to them on the day of Uḥud, Allah comforted them by saying that what afflicted them was part of the divinely ordained laws of life, i.e. the believers suffering trials at the hands of the disbelievers and overcoming them in the end after their trial. Similar incidents have therefore come to pass in times before them. So, travel the earth and learn from seeing what the fate of those who disbelieved in Allah and His messengers was: their houses are now empty and their power has disappeared.
Source: Al-Mukhtasar Tafsir — Tafsir Center for Quranic Studies.
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