أصحاب الأخدودConceptCompanions Of The Trench in the Quranأصحاب الأخدودHistory6Verses1Surahs11Connections#529of 828

Key Verses

1. 85:4Al-BurujCommand
   قُتِلَ أَصۡحَٰبُ ٱلۡأُخۡدُودِ
   (Self-)destroyed were the owners of the ditch
   In context

   Those who made a huge crevice in the ground are cursed.

2. 85:5Al-Buruj
   ٱلنَّارِ ذَاتِ ٱلۡوَقُودِ
   Of the fuel-fed fire,
   In context

   In which they lit a fire and threw the believers into it alive.

3. 85:6Al-BurujCommand
   إِذۡ هُمۡ عَلَيۡهَا قُعُودٞ
   When they sat by it,
   In context

   While they sat around that crevice filled with fire.

4. 85:7Al-Buruj
   وَهُمۡ عَلَىٰ مَا يَفۡعَلُونَ بِٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ شُهُودٞ
   And were themselves the witnesses of what they did to the believers.
   In context

   They were witnesses to the torture and ill-treatment they meted out to the believers, as they were present there.

5. 85:8Al-Buruj
   وَمَا نَقَمُواْ مِنۡهُمۡ إِلَّآ أَن يُؤۡمِنُواْ بِٱللَّهِ ٱلۡعَزِيزِ ٱلۡحَمِيدِ
   They had naught against them save that they believed in Allah, the Mighty, the Owner of Praise,
   In context

   These disbelievers found no fault in the believers except that they had faith in Allah, the Mighty, Whom none can overpower, the One Praised in everything.

6. 85:10Al-BurujWarning
   إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ فَتَنُواْ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ وَٱلۡمُؤۡمِنَٰتِ ثُمَّ لَمۡ يَتُوبُواْ فَلَهُمۡ عَذَابُ جَهَنَّمَ وَلَهُمۡ عَذَابُ ٱلۡحَرِيقِ
   Lo! they who persecute believing men and believing women and repent not, theirs verily will be the doom of hell, and theirs the doom of burning.
   In context

   Those who tortured the believing men and women with the fire in order to turn them away from having faith in Allah alone, and then did not repent to Allah from their sins, for them on the day of judgment is the punishment of Hell and for them is the punishment of the Fire that will burn them, as a recompense for their burning the believers in the fire.