لَقَدْ أَنزَلْنَآ إِلَيْكُمْ كِتَٰبًۭا فِيهِ ذِكْرُكُمْ ۖ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ
Sesungguhnya telah Kami turunkan kepada kamu sebuah kitab yang di dalamnya terdapat sebab-sebab kemuliaan bagimu. Maka apakah kamu tiada memahaminya?
Tafsir Ibn Kathir
The Virtue of the Qur'an Here
Allah points out the noble status of the Qur'an and urges them to recognize its worth:
(Indeed, We have sent down for you a Book in which there is Dhikrukum). Ibn `Abbas said: "Honor for you."
(Will you not then understand) means, will you not understand this blessing, and accept it This is like the Ayah:
(And verily, this is indeed a Reminder for you and your people, and you will be questioned.) 43:44
How the Evildoers were destroyed
(How many a town given to wrongdoing, have We destroyed,) meaning, they were very many. This is like the Ayah:
(And how many generations have We destroyed after Nuh!) 17:17
(And many a township did We destroy while they were given to wrongdoing, so that it lie in ruins) 22:45.
(and raised up after them another people!) means, another nation which came after them.
(Then, when they sensed Our torment,) when they realized that the torment would undoubtedly come upon them, just as their Prophet had warned them,
(behold, they (tried to) flee from it.) they tried to run away.
(Flee not, but return to that wherein you lived a luxurious life, and to your homes,) This is a way of ridiculing them. It will be said to them by way of ridicule: "Do not run away from the coming torment; go back to the delights and luxuries and fine homes in which you were living." Qatadah said, "Mocking them."
(in order that you may be questioned) about whether you gave thanks for what you had.
(They cried: "Woe to us! Certainly we have been wrong- doers.") They will confess their sins when it will be of no benefit to them.
(And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is reaped, extinct.) meaning, "they will keep on saying that, admitting their wrong- doing, until We harvest them as it were, and their movements and voices come to a stop."
Hadits Terkait
Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Mahmud bin Ghailan] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Abu Ahmad Az Zubairi] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Sufyan] dari [Al Mughirah bin An Nu'man] dari [Sa'id bin Jubair] dari [Ibnu 'Abbas] berkata: Rasulullah Shallallahu 'alaihi wa salam bersabda: "Manusia dikumpulkan pada hari kiamat dalam kondisi tanpa alas kaki, telanjang dan belum disunat." Kemudian beliau membaca: "Sebagaimana kami telah memulai panciptaan pertama begitulah Kami akan mengulanginya. Itulah suatu janji yang pasti kami tepati." (Al-Anbiyaa`: 104) dan makhluk pertama yang diberi pakaian adalah Ibrahim dan di antara para sahabat-sahabat kami ada yang diambil dari kiki dan kanan, aku berkata: Wahai Rabb, sahabat-sahabatku. Dikatakan: Sesungguhnya engkau tidak tahu apa yang mereka buat-buat setelahmu, mereka tetap murtad sejak kau tinggalkan mereka. Lalu aku berkata seperti yang diucapkan hamba shalih: "Jika Engkau menyiksa mereka, maka sesungguhnya mereka adalah hamba-hamba Engkau, dan jika Engkau mengampuni mereka, maka sesungguhnya Engkaulah yang Maha Perkasa lagi Maha Bijaksana." (Al-Maa`idah: 118) Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Muhammad bin Basyar] dan [Muhammad bin Al Mutsanna] keduanya berkata: telah menceritakan kepada kami [Muhammad bin Ja'far] dari [Syu'bah] dari [Al Mughirah bin An Nu'man] dengan sanad ini lalu ia menyebut sepertinya. Berkata Abu Isa: Hadits ini hasan shahih