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Surah Ibrahim — 14:28

۞ أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ بَدَّلُوا۟ نِعْمَتَ ٱللَّهِ كُفْرًا وَأَحَلُّوا۟ قَوْمَهُمْ دَارَ ٱلْبَوَارِ

Alam tara ilal lazeena baddaloo ni'matal laahi kufranw wa ahalloo qawmahum daaral bawaar

Czy nie widziałeś tych, którzy zamienili dobroć Boga na niewiarę i umieścili swój lud w domostwie zguby

Have you not seen those who exchanged God's favor for ingratitude and led their people into the abode of ruin —

Reflection

Bawār is a merchant's word before it is an eschatological one, used of goods that will not move and of effort that yields nothing, and 35:29 turns it the other way for a trade that never fails. The leaders are described with a verb of settling people into a dwelling, so the ruin arrives here as an address. Reports name Quraysh who fell at Badr, and the wording holds for any people whose leaders bring them down with them.

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