As-Saffat Verse 177

Yet when it descends upon them:[[ lit., when it lands in their courtyards.]] how evil will that morning be for those who had been warned!

When it descends on their courtyard, how terrible will be the morning of those who were warned!

When it lights in their courtyard, how evil will be the morning of them that are warned!

When it descends on their courtyards, how ter-rible that morning will be for those who were warned!

Then when it descendeth Unto them face to, face, a hapless morn that shall be for those who were Warned.

But when it descends into the open space before them, evil will be the morning for those who were warned (and heeded not)!

When that chastisement will descend upon their courtyard, evil shall that Day be for those who had been warned.

When it comes down on their plains, it will be an evil dawn for those who had been warned.

So when it does descend in their courtyards – so what an evil morning it will be for those who were warned!

But when it descends in their courtyard it will be a dismal dawn for those who had been warned.

But when it descends encompassing them, then evil will be the morning of those who have been warned.

But evil shall be the morning of those who were warned when this punishment shall descend in their precincts.

So if it (the torture) descended at their court/yard, so it became (a) bad/evil/harmful morning/day break (of) the warned/given notice.

So when it does descend in their courtyards – so what an evil morning it will be for those who were warned!

But when it descends on them, evil will then be the morning for those who have been warned.

Then, when it descends into their courtyard (i.e. near to them), evil will be the morning for those who had been warned!

So when it descends in their court, evil will be the morning of the warned ones.

But when it shall descend in their court, evil shall then be the morning of the warned ones.

But when it cometh home to them, then it will be a hapless morn for those who have been warned.

When it descends into their courtyard, it will be terrible for those who have already been warned.

When it descends upon their courtyards, evil will be the morning of those forewarned.

Then, when it descends in their courtyard, evil will be the morning for those who had warned!

When it descends on their courtyards, how terrible that morning will be for those who were warned!

When it descends into their yard, miserable will be the morning of those forewarned.

But when it descends in their courtyard -- al-Farr' said that the Arabs find it sufficient to refer to a people by referring to `their courtyard' -- how awful, how terrible a morning, will be the morning for those who were warned (the overt noun [al-mundharn] has replaced the [third person] pronominalisation [in shatihim]).

Then, when it descends in their courtyard, evil will be the morning for those who had been warned!

means, when the punishment comes down to the place where they are, terrible will be the day of their punishment and destruction.

As-Suddi said;

فَإِذَا نَزَلَ بِسَاحَتِهِمْ
(Then, when it descends in their courtyard), means, in their homes;

فَسَاء صَبَاحُ الْمُنذَرِينَ
(evil will be the morning for those who had been warned!) means, how terrible that morning will be for them.

It was reported in the Two Sahihs that Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, said,

"On the morning of Khyber, when the people came out with their tools (to go about their daily work) and saw the (Muslim) army, they went back and said, `Muhammad by Allah! Muhammad and the army!'

The Prophet said;

اللهُ أَكْبَرُ خَرِبَتْ خَيْبَرُ إِنَّا إِذَا نَزَلْنَا بِسَاحَةِ قَوْمٍ فَسَاءَ صَبَاحُ الْمُنْذَرِين

Allahu Akbar! Khyber has been destroyed. Then, when it descends in the courtyard of any people, evil will be the morning for those who had been warned!"

وَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ حَتَّى حِينٍ