Al-A’ráf 7:166 فلما عتوا عن ما نهوا عنه قلنا لهم كونوا قردة خاسيين ١٦٦
فَلَمَّا
عَتَوۡاْ
عَن
مَّا
نُهُواْ
عَنۡهُ
قُلۡنَا
لَهُمۡ
كُونُواْ
قِرَدَةً
خَٰسِـِٔينَ
١٦٦
But when they stubbornly persisted in violation, We said to them, “Be disgraced apes!”1
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
So when they were insolent about that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, "Be apes, despised."
— Saheeh International
Lee Tafsir
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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