The verse says: “And they used to hew secure houses in the mountains.
The verse says: “And they used to hew secure houses in the mountains.” It is astonishing that man maximized the security and whatever belongs to his fleeting worldly life so much, while he is extremely so negligent for his eternal and immortal life in the Hereafter that he sometimes is not even ready to listen to Allah’s speech and is not predisposed to even to glance at His signs of communication. After all, what can one expect from such a people?
Expect for the ‘Divine law of the survival of the fittest’ and except for the abstinence from providing the right of continuing with one’s life for those nations who are entirely corrupt and incite corruption. An exterminating catastrophe must be inflicted upon them and annihilate them altogether. Therefore, the Holy Qur’an asserts: “So the (violent) blast overtook them in the morning.” This blast was a death threatening thunderbolt which came down upon their houses and annihilated them.
“And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them two but with truth; and verily the Hour (of resurrection) is surely coming; then pardon you, with a gracious pardoning.” 86. “Verily your Lord, He is the Creator, the All-Knowing.” The Arabic term /safh/ is derived from /safhah/ which means ‘face’.
The Arabic phrase /fasfah-is-safh/ signifies ‘turning one’s face away from someone but not out of one’s outrage but to do that for forgiving and overlooking in case of one’s compassion and out of one’s affections’. Imam Rida (as) has commented upon the Qur’anic phrase /safh-in-jamil/ as ‘forgiving without inquisition, or with no taking to task’.
As man’s everlasting troubles and entanglements have their roots in his lack of ideology and correct system of beliefs and, briefly speaking, in his disbelief in the origin of existence and in the Resurrection Day, the Qur’an returns to the issues of ‘monotheism’ and of ‘resurrection’ after describing the situation of nations such as the people of Lot and the people of Shu‘ayb and that of Salih, those who were entangled in all of those afflictions.