Quote:
{77:16} Did We not destroy the former peoples?
I suggest,
{77:16} Did We not destroy the formers?Quote:
{77:17} Then We will follow them with the later ones.
I find that Sarwar pinpointed the meaning. The context is that of what happens to the belying folk. God destroys them and places new people in their land and property! This is also a continuation of the rhetorical question God asks in the previous verse. So, I suggest,
{77:17} Then We follow them with the later [generations]?Quote:
{77:18} Thus do We deal with the criminals.
I suggest,
{77:18} Thus do We do with the criminals.Quote:
{77:19} Woe, that Day, to the deniers.
I suggest,
{77:19} Woe, that Day, to the belying.