Tafsir al-Jalalayn — adh-Dhariyat 51:56

And I did not create the jinn and mankind except that they may worship Me the fact that disbelievers do not worship God does not contradict this statement since a purpose does not have to be realised in an act for it to be valid as when you may say ‘I sharpened this pencil in […]

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — adh-Dhariyat 51:38

And a sign too in Moses wa-fī Mūsā is a supplement to fīhā ‘therein’ that is to say We also left a sign in the story of Moses when We sent him to Pharaoh vested with a clear warrant with a manifest proof;

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — adh-Dhariyat 51:39

but he turned away he rejected belief to his supports bi-ruknihi his hosts so called because to him they are like a support rukn saying to Moses that he Moses was ‘A sorcerer or a madman!’

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — adh-Dhariyat 51:40

So We seized him and his hosts and cast flung them into the waters the sea and so they drowned for he that is Pharaoh was blameworthy guilty of what is blameworthy such as denying the messengers and claiming divinity.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — adh-Dhariyat 51:41

And also in the destruction of ‘Ād was a sign when We unleashed against them a barren wind a wind which brings nothing of good for it does not bear any rain and does not pollinate any trees; this wind was the west wind al-dabūr.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — adh-Dhariyat 51:43

And also in the destruction of Thamūd was a sign when it was said to them after the hamstringing of the she-camel ‘Enjoy yourselves for a while!’ until the end of your terms of life — as stated in the other verse ‘Enjoy yourselves in your dwellings for three days’ Q.1165.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn — adh-Dhariyat 51:44

Then they defied they scorned the command of their Lord refraining from implementing it; so the thunderbolt that is the destructive cry seized them after the three days had passed as they were looking around in other words it seized them in the daytime.