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Hud (Hud)
Verse 82
Translation:
82. When Our decree issued We turned (the cities) upside down and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay spread layer on layer
Notes (Tafseer):
1578. Cf. vii. 84 and n. 1052.
1579. Sijjil, a Persian word Arabicised, from Sang-o-gil, or Sang-i-gil, stone and clay, or hard as baked clay, according to the Qamus. Sodom and Gomorrah were in a tract of hard, caky, sulphurous soil, to which this description well applies. Cf. Ii. 33, where the words are "stones of clay" (hijarat min tin) in connection with the same incident. On the other hand, in cv. 4, the word sijjil is used for pellets of hard-baked clay in connection with Abraha and the Companions of the Elephant.
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