﴿ فَلَمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَٰلِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا حِجَارَةًۭ مِّن سِجِّيلٍۢ مَّنضُودٍۢ ﴾

“And so, when Our judgment came to pass, We turned those [sinful towns] upside down, and rained down upon them stone-hard blows of chastisement pre-ordained. one upon another,”

(So when Our commandment) when Our chastisement (came to pass) to destroy them (We overthrew (that township)) We turned it upside down (and rained upon it) upon its sodomites and those who travelled there (stones of clay) mixed with manure and mud, like bricks; it is also said that this means: from the first heaven, (one after another) in succession, one after another,