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Surah 15. Al-Hijr, Ayah 74

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فَجَعَلْنَا عَـٰلِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةً مِّن سِجِّيلٍ

FajaAAaln a AA a liyah a s a filah a waam t arn a AAalayhim h ij a ratan min sijjeel in

and We turned those [sinful towns] upside down, and rained down upon them stone-hard blows of chastisement pre-ordained.⁵³

- Mohammad Asad

Thus We turned the town upside down and rained down on them brimstones of baked clay.

- Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

And We turned the cities 'of Sodom and Gomorrah' upside down and rained upon them stones of baked clay.

- Mustafa Khattab

And We utterly confounded them, and We rained upon them stones of heated clay.

- Marmaduke Pickthall

And We turned (the Cities) upside down and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay. ¹⁹⁹⁷

- Abdullah Yusuf Ali