The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 2) — Page 566
CH. 7 AL-A'RĀF وَأَهْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مَّطَرًا فَانْظُرْ كَيْفَ And We rained upon them. 85 a rain. Now see, what was the end of the sinners. 983 R. 11. ₹20 = PT. 8 كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُجْرِمِينَ ® وَإِلى مَدْيَنَ أَخَاهُمْ شُعَيْبًا قَالَ يُقَوْمِ And to Midian We sent. 86 their brother Shu'aib. He said, you have no other deity but اعْبُدُوا اللهَ مَالَكُمْ مِنْ الهِ غَيْرُهُ قَدْ O my people, worship Allah جَاءَ تُكُمُ بَيْنَةٌ مِنْ رَّبِّكُمْ فَأَوْفُوا Him. A clear Sign has indeed الكَيْلَ وَالْمِيزَانَ وَلَا تَبْخَسُوا النَّاسَ come to you from your Lord. So give full measure and full أَشْيَاءَهُمْ وَلَا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ بَعْدَ weight, and diminish not unto people their things, and create إصْلَاحِهَا ذَلِكُمْ خَيْكُمْ إِن كُنتُم not disorder in the earth after it مُّؤْمِنِينَ ® has been set in order. This is better for you, if you believers. 984 are "26:174; 27:59. 11:85; 29:37. 6:153; 11:86. people of Lot lived. According to some, the Dead Sea is the site of the ruined cities. The Quran, however, appears to place it on the route from Medina to Syria (15:80). 983. Commentary: It appears that there was a violent eruption, and burning matter was thrown out of the ground and buried the disbelieving people underneath it. 984. Important Words: Midian. Some have referred to it as a sea-port on account of its proximity to the sea, being situated only at a distance of eight miles from it; others have spoken of it as an inland town. (Shu'aib) was the name of a lived non-Israelite Prophet who before Moses. He is generally looked upon as the father-in-law of Moses, though the Bible makes no mention of the name. According to the story of the Bible, the name of the father-in- C (Midian) was Abraham's son law of Moses was Jethro, who is not from Keturah (Gen. 25:1, 2). His spoken of as a Prophet. The Quran descendants dwelt in the north of the speaks of Moses as having been Hijāz. Midian was also the name of a raised after Shu'aib, so he could not town near the Red Sea, opposite to be a contemporary (7:104). As Sinai on the Arabian shore. The town Shu'aib has been mentioned in this was SO called because it was verse as the "brother" of Midian, the inhabited by the descendants of inference is inevitable that he was a 1006