Tafseer of The Poets · Ash-Shu'araa · 26:173
And We rained upon them a rain [of stones], and evil was the rain of those who were warned.
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Allah, the Exalted, says: Then We destroyed the rest of the people of Lūṭ by annihilation. وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مَطَرًا (And We rained down upon them a rain) — and that was Allah's sending upon them stones of baked clay (sijjīl) from the sky. فَسَاءَ مَطَرُ الْمُنْذَرِينَ (How evil was the rain of those who had been warned!) — that is to say: how wretched was that rain — the rain of the people who had been warned by their prophet and had denied him as a liar.
