Tafheem ul Quran

Surah 11 Hud, Ayat 82-82

فَلَمَّا جَآءَ اَمۡرُنَا جَعَلۡنَا عَالِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَاَمۡطَرۡنَا عَلَيۡهَا حِجَارَةً مِّنۡ سِجِّيۡلٍۙ  مَّنۡضُوۡدٍۙ‏ ﴿11:82﴾

(11:82) And when Our command came to pass, We turned the town upside down, and rained on it stones of baked clay, one on another,91

Notes

91. Probably the scourge came in the form of a horrible earthquake which turned their habitations upside down and the explosion of a volcano which rained stones on them.

“Stones of layered baked clay” probably refers to the stones that are formed by the underground heat and lava in the volcanic regions. The signs of such a formation are found even today near the Lot Sea.