Saheeh International

Indeed, we will bring down on the people of this city punishment from the sky because they have been defiantly disobedient."

       

Saheeh International

And We have certainly left of it a sign as clear evidence for a people who use reason.

                

Saheeh International

And to Madyan [We sent] their brother Shuʿayb, and he said, "O my people, worship Allāh and expect the Last Day and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption."

       

Saheeh International

But they denied him, so the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.

                

Saheeh International

And [We destroyed] ʿAad and Thamūd, and it has become clear to you from their [ruined] dwellings. And Satan had made pleasing to them their deeds and averted them from the path, and they were endowed with perception.

             

Saheeh International

And [We destroyed] Qārūn and Pharaoh and Hāmān. And Moses had already come to them with clear evidences, and they were arrogant in the land, but they were not outrunners [of Our punishment].

                            

Saheeh International

So each We seized for his sin; and among them were those upon whom We sent a storm of stones, and among them were those who were seized by the blast [from the sky], and among them were those whom We caused the earth to swallow, and among them were those whom We drowned. And Allāh would not have wronged them, but it was they who were wronging themselves.

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Saheeh International

The example of those who take allies other than Allāh is like that of the spider who takes [i.e., constructs] a home. And indeed, the weakest of homes is the home of the spider, if they only knew.

            

Saheeh International

Indeed, Allāh knows whatever thing they call upon1 other than Him. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

        

Saheeh International

And these examples We present to the people, but none will understand them except those of knowledge.