Meaning: We destroyed · Also translated as: and We destroy it, destroyed them, Destroying, Allah destroyed
Forms in the Quran
دَمَّرْنَا×2
وَدَمَّرْنَا×1
فَدَمَّرْنَٰهَا×1
فَدَمَّرْنَٰهُمْ×1
دَمَّرْنَٰهُمْ×1
تُدَمِّرُ×1
دَمَّرَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
قال: فدمرناهم تدميرا
قوله تعالى: ﴿ودمرنا﴾ [الأعراف: 137] أي أهلكنا. وأصل التدمير إدخال الهلاك على المهلك. يقال: دمر القوم يدمرون دمورا ودمارا أي هلكوا بدخول الهلاك عليهم. يقال: دمر أي دخل، ومنه الحديث: "من اطلع في بيت قوم بغير إذنهم فقد دمر" أي دخل. ودمر ودمق واحد، والتضعيف فيه للتعدية؛ قوله: ﴿دمر الله عليهم﴾ [محمد: 10] مفعوله مقدر أي دمر…
And We made a people,
Considered weak (and of no account),
Inheritors of lands
In both East and West,—
Lands whereon We sent
Down Our blessings.
The fair promise of thy Lord
Was fulfilled for the Children
Of Israel, because they had
Patience and constancy,
And We levelled to the ground
The great Works and fine Buildings
Which Pharaoh and his people
Erected (with such pride).
When We decide to destroy
A population, We (first) send
A definite order to those
Among them who are given
The good things of this life
And yet transgress; so that
The word is proved true
Against them: then (it is)
We destroy them utterly.
"Everything will it destroy
By the command of its Lord!"
Then by the morning they—
Nothing was to be seen
But (the ruins of) their houses!
Thus do We recompense
Those given to sin!
Do they not travel
Through the earth, and see
What was the End
Of those before them
(Who did evil)?
God brought utter destruction
On them, and similar
(Fates await) those who
Reject God.