القيامة
Al-Qiyamah
Surah 75
Verse 26
القيامة
The Resurrection • makkah
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العربیّا عثمانی (Arabic Uthmani)
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
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English - Short Commentary Translation
English - Topics
75:26
English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ra
Thinking that a back-breaking calamity is about to befall them.
English - Five Volume Translation
Thinking that a back-breaking calamity is about to befall them.[4471]
Important Words:
فاقرة (back-breaking) is derived from فقر which means, he stigmatized a man. فقر البعیر means, he made an incision in the nose of the camel. فقرته الداھیة, means, the calamity broke the vertebrae of his back. فاقرة means, an act that breaks the vertebrae of the back; a back-breaking calamity. They say عمل به الفاقرة i.e. he did to him that which broke his back (Lane & Aqrab).
Commentary:
The Fall of Mecca broke the back of the Quraishite power.
English - Short Commentary Translation
Knowing that a back-breaking calamity[3183] will befall them.
The Arabs say, Faqarat-hud-Dahiyatu, i.e. the calamity broke the vertebrae of his back (Lane).