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TYRANNY - TYRANT Thamud denied in their excessive tyranny.
They said, ‘There are tyrants in it, Musa. We will (91:11)
not enter it until they leave. If they leave it, then
we will go in.’ (5:22)
We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and
Pharaoh and his troops pursued them out of
tyranny and enmity. Then, when he was on the
point of drowning, he said, ‘I believe that there is
no god but Him in whom the tribe of Israel be-
lieve. I am one of the Muslims.’ (10:90)
That was ‘Ad. They denied the Signs of their Lord
and disobeyed His Messengers and followed the
command of every obdurate tyrant. (11:59)
They asked for Allah’s victory, and every obdu-
rate tyrant failed. (14:15)
Allah commands justice and doing good and giv-
ing to relatives. And He forbids indecency and
doing wrong and tyranny. He warns you so that
hopefully you will pay heed. (16:90)
(Hud said to his people,) ‘Do you build a tower
on every hilltop, just to amuse yourselves, and
construct great fortresses, hoping to live for ever,
and when you attack, attack as tyrants do?’
(26:128-130)
But when he was about to grab the man who was
their common enemy, he said, ‘Musa! Do you
want to kill me just as you killed a person yester-
day? You only want to be a tyrant in the land; you
do not want to be a reformer.’ (28:19)
They only split up after knowledge came to
them, tyrannising one another. And were it not
for a prior decree from your Lord for a specified
term, the judgement between them would al-
ready have been made. Those who inherited the
Book after them are indeed in grave doubt about
it. (42:14)
We made the Commandments very clear to them
and they only differed after knowledge came to
them, tyrannising one other. Your Lord will de-
cide between them on the Day of Rising regard-
ing the things they differed about. (45:17)
Do you not see what your Lord did with
‘Ad–Iram of the Columns whose like was not cre-
ated in any land–and Thamud who carved out
rocks in the valley-side, and Pharaoh of the
Stakes, all of whom were tyrants in their lands
and caused much corruption in them? (89:6-12)
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