Al-A'raf (The Heights)
Verse 166of 206
فَلَمَّا عَتَوْا۟ عَن مَّا نُهُوا۟ عَنْهُ قُلْنَا لَهُمْ كُونُوا۟ قِرَدَةً خَٰسِـِٔينَ﴿١٦٦﴾
Translation (Sahih International)
So when they were insolent about that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, "Be apes, despised."
Word-by-word meaning
Commentary (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)
Those Who breached the Sabbath were turned into Monkeys, butThose Who prohibited Their Actions were savedAllah 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. Another group prohibited them from transgression and avoided them. A third group neither prohibited them, nor participated in their action.
Source: Tafsir Ibn Kathir — abridged excerpt
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