Al-A'raf (The Heights)
Verse 139of 206
إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ مُتَبَّرٌۭ مَّا هُمْ فِيهِ وَبَٰطِلٌۭ مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ﴿١٣٩﴾
Translation (Sahih International)
Indeed, those [worshippers] - destroyed is that in which they are [engaged], and worthless is whatever they were doing."
Word-by-word meaning
Commentary (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)
The Children of Israel safely cross the Sea, but still held on to the Idea of Idol WorshippingAllah mentions the words that the ignorant ones among the Children of Israel uttered to Musa after they crossed the sea and witnessed Allah's Ayat and great power.فَأَتَوْاْ عَلَى قَوْمٍ يَعْكُفُونَ عَلَى أَصْنَامٍ لَّهُمْ(And they came upon a people devoted to some of their idols (in worship).) Some scholars of Tafsir said that the people mentioned here were from Canaan, or from the tribe of Lakhm.
Source: Tafsir Ibn Kathir — abridged excerpt
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