Translation:

189. But they rejected him. Then the punishment of a day of overshadowing gloom seized them and that was the Penalty of a Great Day.

Notes (Tafseer)

3220. Perhaps a shower of ashes and cinders accompanying a volcanic eruption. If these people were the same as the Midianites, there was also an earthquake. See vii. 91 and n. 1063.

3221. It must have been a terrible day of wholesale destruction-earthquake, volcanic eruption, lava, cinders and ashes and rumbling noises to frighten those whose death was not instantaneous.