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Al-A'raf 7:166 فلما عتوا عن ما نهوا عنه قلنا لهم كونوا قردة خاسيين ١٦٦

7:166
فَلَمَّا
عَتَوۡاْ
عَن
مَّا
نُهُواْ
عَنۡهُ
قُلۡنَا
لَهُمۡ
كُونُواْ
قِرَدَةً
خَٰسِـِٔينَ
١٦٦
When they persisted in doing what they were forbidden from, We said to them, “Become apes debased.”
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

Those Who breached the Sabbath were turned into Monkeys, butThose Who prohibited Their Actions were saved

Allah said that the people of this village were divided into three groups, a group that committed the prohibition, catching fish on the Sabbath, as we described in the Tafsir of Surat Al-Baqarah.

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Those Who breached the Sabbath were turned into Monkeys, butThose Who prohibited Their Actions were saved

Allah said that the people of this village we

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Chapter 7, Page 172, Juz 9

163. Ask them about the town situated by the sea, when they used to transgress in the matter of Sabbath, when their fish came to them openly on the Sabbath, and did not come when they did not have Sabbath. In this way, We put them to a test, because they used to act sinfully. 164. When a group of them said, “Why do you exhort a people whom Allah is going to destroy or chastise with a severe punishment?” They said, “To absolve ourselves before your Lord, and in order that they may fear Allah.” 165. So, when they forgot the advice they were given, We saved those who used to forbid evil and seized those who transgressed with a bitter punishment, because they had been disobeying. 166. When they persisted in doing what they were forbidden from, We said to them, “Become apes debased.” 167. Recall) when your Lord declared that He would surely keep sending, till the Day of Judgment, those who inflict on them evil chastisement. Certainly, your Lord is swift in punishing, and certainly He is the Most-forgiving, Very Merciful. 168. We divided them on the earth as separate communities. Some of them were righteous, while some others were otherwise. We tested them with good and bad times, so that they might return.

- T. Usmani

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