The Quran

سورة الفُرقان

Surah Al-Furqân 25:38

The Standard of Truth and Falsehood · Verse 38 of 77

وَعَادًا وَثَمُودَ وَأَصْحَابَ الرَّسِّ وَقُرُونًا بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ كَثِيرًا

Abdul Mannan Omar

And (tribes of) `âd and Thamûd and the People of the Rass and many a generation in between them (were all destroyed).

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

As also 'Ad and Thamud, and the Companions of the Rass, and many a generation between them.

Ahmed Ali

(As for) ´Ad, Thamud and the people of ar-Rass, and many generations in between them,

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Ali Unal

And the Ad and Thamud, and the people of ar-Rass, and many other generations that lived between these (and the people of Noah).

Daryabadi

And the ´Aad and the Thamud and the dwellers of the pass and generations in-between many.

Faridul Haque

And the tribes of A’ad and the Thamud, and the people of the Wells, and many a generation between them.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And

Maulvi Sher Ali

And WE destroyed Ad and Thamud, and the People of the Well, and many a generation between them,

Muhammad Asad

And [remember how We punished the tribes of] 'Ad and Thamud, and the people of Ar-Rass, and many generations [of sinners] in-between:

Muhammad Musin Khan

And (also) 'Ad and Thamud, and the dwellers of Ar-Rass, and many generations in between.

Muhammad Pickthall

And (the tribes of) A'ad and Thamud, and the dwellers in Ar-Rass, and many generations in between.

Muhammad Sarwar

To each of the tribes of Ad, Thamud, the settlers around the well and many generations in between

Muhammed ali Shakir

And Ad and Samood and the dwellers of the Rass and many generations between them.

Rashad Khalifa

Also `Aad, Thamoud, the inhabitants of Al-Russ, and many generations between them.

Shabbir Ahmed

And (Our law also struck) ‘Aad and Thamud, and the people of Ar-Rass, and many generations in between.

Commentary 25:38 Râssالرَّسِّ means prelude, beginning, first symptoms of an illness or of love, a mine, an old well. Al-Rass الرَّسِّ is the name of a valley (Lisân;…

وَعَادًا وَثَمُودَ وَأَصْحَابَ الرَّسِّ وَقُرُونًا بَيْنَ ذَ‌ٰلِكَ كَثِيرًا

25:38 Râssالرَّسِّ means prelude, beginning, first symptoms of an illness or of love, a mine, an old well. Al-Rass الرَّسِّ is the name of a valley (Lisân; Tâj). The “People of Rass” are the inhabitants of the valley al-Rass. A town of the name Al-Rass exists to this day in the central Arabian province of al-Qâsim. Zajjâj thinks that Râss was the place inhabited by the descendants of Nabatean tribe of Thamûd. Others are of opinion that al-Rass is the name of a town in Yamâmah. Râzî quotes various conflicting interpretations and rejects them as purely conjectural.