Surah: 89. al-Fajr

and caused much corruption therein? by way of slaying and otherwise.

So your Lord poured on them a scourge of chastisement.

Assuredly your Lord is ever on the watch watching over the deeds of servants nothing of which escapes Him that He may then requite them for these deeds.

and by the night in motion falling or receding

Is there in that oath an oath for one of sense? one of intellect the response to the oath has been omitted that is to say it is to be understood as something like la-tu‘adhdhabunna yā kuffāra Makka ‘you will assuredly be chastised O disbelievers of Mecca!’.

Have you not seen do you not know O Muhammad (s) how your Lord dealt with ‘Ād

Iram — these were the former people of ‘Ād Irama is an explicative supplement or a substitution and it is treated as a diptote because it is a proper noun and feminine — of the towering ones that is to say the tall ones — the tallest one among them would reach four hundred cubits […]

By the dawn that is to say by the dawn of each day

and by the ten nights the first ten nights of Dhū’l-Hijja

and by the even the pair and the odd read watr or witr two alternative forms the single