Surah Fussilat 41:17 — translation and meaning

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وَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَهَدَيْنَاهُمْ فَاسْتَحَبُّوا الْعَمَى عَلَى الْهُدَى فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ صَاعِقَةُ الْعَذَابِ الْهُونِ بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ

Word by Word

وَأَمَّا
wa-amma
And as for
ثَمُودُ
thamudu
Thamud
فَهَدَيْنَاهُمْ
fahadaynahum
We guided them
فَاسْتَحَبُّوا
fa-is'tahabbu
but they preferred
الْعَمَى
al-'ama
[the] blindness
عَلَى
ala
over
الْهُدَى
al-huda
the guidance
فَأَخَذَتْهُمْ
fa-akhadhathum
so seized them
صَاعِقَةُ
sa'iqatu
a thunderbolt
الْعَذَابِ
al-'adhabi
(of) the punishment
الْهُونِ
al-huni
humiliating
بِمَا
bima
for what
كَانُوا
kanu
they used (to)
يَكْسِبُونَ
yaksibuna
earn

Transliteration

Wa ammaa Samoodu fahadinaahum fastahabbul 'ama 'alal huda fa akhazathum saa'iqatul 'azaabil hooni bimaa kaanoo yaksiboon

Translation

And as for Thamud, We guided them, but they preferred blindness over guidance, so the thunderbolt of humiliating punishment seized them for what they used to earn.

Verse interpretation (Tafsir)

As for the people of Saleh, the Thamūd, I guided them by making the path of truth clear to them, but they preferred deviance to guidance to the truth, so the humiliating punishment seized them because of the disbelief and sins they would commit.

Source: Al-Mukhtasar Tafsir — Tafsir Center for Quranic Studies.

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