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pray for forgiveness and enter prevent the doing of evil. And
the gate in humility: We shall We meted out a severe
forgive you your sins and shall punishment to the transgressors
bestow further favours upon because they were rebellious.
those who do good,’ 162 the 166 And then, when they
transgressors among them disdainfully persisted in doing
substituted something else for what they had been forbidden to
the word they had been given. do, We said to them, ‘Be as apes,
So We sent them a punishment despised!’
from heaven for their 167 Then your Lord declared
wrongdoing. that, until the Day of
163 Ask them about the town Resurrection, He would send
which was by the sea and what others against them to inflict
befell its people when they broke terrible suffering on them. Your
the Sabbath. On their Sabbath Lord is swift in retribution; yet
the fish came to them near the surely He is most forgiving and
surface, but on week-days they merciful. 168 We split them up
never came near them—thus We into sections on the earth. Some
tried them because of their of them are righteous while some
disobedience. 164 When some of of them are otherwise, and We
them asked, ‘Why do you tested them with blessings and
admonish a people whom God is misfortunes, so that they might
going to destroy or to afflict with return to the right path.
a severe punishment?’ They 169 They were succeeded by
answered, ‘In order to be free generations who inherited the
from blame before your Lord, Scripture and took to the fleeting
and that they may perhaps fear gains of this world, saying, ‘We
Him.’ shall certainly be forgiven.’ If
165 Therefore when they forgot there came to them similar
what they had been reminded of, fleeting gains again, they would
We saved those who had tried to take them. Was a pledge not