فَلَمَّا
نَسُواْ
مَا
ذُكِّرُواْ
بِهِۦٓ
أَنجَيۡنَا
ٱلَّذِينَ
يَنۡهَوۡنَ
عَنِ
ٱلسُّوٓءِ
وَأَخَذۡنَا
ٱلَّذِينَ
ظَلَمُواْ
بِعَذَابِۭ
بَـِٔيسِۭ
بِمَا
كَانُواْ
يَفۡسُقُونَ
١٦٥
When they ignored the warning they were given, We rescued those who used to warn against evil and overtook the wrongdoers with a dreadful punishment for their rebelliousness.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
And when they [i.e., those advised] forgot that by which they had been reminded, We saved those who had forbidden evil and seized those who wronged, with a wretched punishment, because they were defiantly disobeying.
— Saheeh International
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Those who breached the Sabbath were turned into Monkeys, but Those 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-Baqara
…Those who breached the Sabbath were turned into Monkeys, but Those Who prohibited Their Actions were saved
Allah said that the people of this village
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