And We sent to Midian their brother Shuayb.1 He said: “My people, serve Allah and look forward to the Last Day2 and do not go about the earth committing mischief.”
Footnotes
[1]
A grammatical shift from plural to singular.
[2]Qira’at: Nafieʻ, Ibn Kathir, Ibn ʻAmer and Abu Jaʻfar read it as: “. . . and We leave them . . .”
[4]
This can have two meanings: (1) “Look forward to the life of Hereafter, and do not think that there is no life after this worldly life, when you will have to render an account of your deeds and be rewarded or punished accordingly.” (2) “Work righteously so as to meet a good end in the Hereafter.”