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Saheeh International

Then We exchanged in place of the bad [condition], good, until they increased [and prospered] and said, "Our fathers [also] were touched with hardship and ease."1 So We seized them suddenly while they did not perceive.2

                  

Saheeh International

And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allāh, We would have opened [i.e., bestowed] upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth; but they denied [the messengers], so We seized them for what they were earning.1

         

Saheeh International

Then, did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them at night while they were asleep?

         

Saheeh International

Or did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them in the morning while they were at play?1

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Saheeh International

Then, did they feel secure from the plan of Allāh? But no one feels secure from the plan of Allāh except the losing people.

                   

Saheeh International

Has it not become clear to those who inherited the earth after its [previous] people that if We willed, We could afflict them for their sins? But We seal over their hearts so they do not hear.1

                       

Saheeh International

Those cities - We relate to you, [O Muḥammad], some of their news. And certainly did their messengers come to them with clear proofs, but they were not to believe in that which they had denied before.1 Thus does Allāh seal over the hearts of the disbelievers.

         

Saheeh International

And We did not find for most of them any covenant;1 but indeed, We found most of them defiantly disobedient.

                

Saheeh International

Then We sent after them Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his establishment, but they were unjust toward them.1 So see how was the end of the corrupters.

        

Saheeh International

And Moses said, "O Pharaoh, I am a messenger from the Lord of the worlds