English translation of the verse 42 surah - Say (O Muhammad SAW): "Travel in the land and see what was

Surat Ar-Rum Verse No. 42: Reading and listening

Translation of the verse 42 from Surah Ar-Rum : Number of verses 60 - - page 409 - Part 21.

﴾قُلۡ سِيرُواْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ فَٱنظُرُواْ كَيۡفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبۡلُۚ كَانَ أَكۡثَرُهُم مُّشۡرِكِينَ ﴿
[ الروم: 42]

Say (O Muhammad SAW): "Travel in the land and see what was the end of those before (you)! Most of them were Mushrikun (the disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, polytheists, idolaters, etc.)."

English - Sahih International

Say, [O Muhammad], "Travel through the land and observe how was the end of those before. Most of them were associators [of others with Allah].

Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(30:42) (O Prophet), say: 'Traverse in the earth and see what was the end of those who went before you: most of them associated others with Allah in His Divinity.' *65

Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

*65) That is, "The disastrous war between Byzantium and Iran is not a new thing of its kind. The past history of mankind is full of the accounts of the destruction of great nations. The root cause of the evils that caused the destruction of those nations was shirk which you are today being admonished to avoid."
 

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Source : Ar-Rum Verse 42: Say, [O Muhammad], "Travel through the land and observe how was the end of those before. Most of them were associators [of others with Allah].