Look! Away with Ad...
Look! Away with Ad, the people of Hud!” [^8] 2.4 Those who disbelieved from amongst the people of Pharaoh وَأُتْبِعُواْ فِي هٰذِهِ لَعْنَةً وَیَوْمَ الْقِیَامَةِ بِئْسَ الرِّفْدُ الْمَرْفُودُ “They were pursued by a curse in this [world], as well as on the Day of Resurrection; evil is the award conferred [upon them]!” [^9] وَأَتْبَعْنَاهُمْ فِي هٰذِهِ الدُّنْیَا لَعْنَةً وَیَوْمَ الْقِیَامَةِ هُمْ مِنَ الْمَقْبُوحِینَ “We made a curse pursue them in this world, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be among the disfigured.” [^10] 2.5 Those who disbelieved from among the Tribes of Israel وَقَالُواْ قُلُوبُنَا غُلْفٌ بَل لَّعَنَهُمُ اللهُ بِکُفْرِهِمْ فَقَلِیلاً مَّا یُؤْمِنُونَ وَلَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ کِتَابٌ مِّنْ عِنْدِ اللهِ مُصَدِّقٌ لِّمَا مَعَهُمْ وَكَانُواْ مِنْ قَبْلُ یَسْتَفْتِحُونَ عَلىٰ الَّذِینَ كَفَرُواْ فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُم مَّا عَرَفُواْ كَفَرُواْ بِهِ فَلَعْنَةُ اللهِ عَلىٰ الْكَافِرِینَ “They say: ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised.’ Rather God has cursed them for their unfaith, so few of them have faith.
And when there came to them a Book from God, confirming that which is with them —and earlier they would pray for victory over the pagans—so when there came to them what they recognized, they defied it.
So may the curse of God be upon the faithless!” [^11] فَبِمَا نَقْضِهِم مِّیثَاقَهُمْ لَعَنَّاهُمْ وَجَعَلْنَا قُلُوبَهُمْ قَاسِیَةً یُحَرِّفُونَ الْكَلِمَ عَنْ مَّوَاضِعِهِ وَنَسُواْ حَظًّا مِّمَّا ذُکِّرُواْ بِهِ وَلاَ تَزَالُ تَطَّلِعُ عَلىٰ خَآئِنَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ إِلاَّ قَلِیلاً مِّنْهُمُ فَاعْفُ عَنْهُمْ وَاصْفَحْ إِنَّ اللهَ یُحِبُّ الْمُحْسِنِینَ “Then, because of their breaking their covenant We cursed them and made their hearts hard: they pervert words from their meanings, and have forgotten a part of what they were reminded.
You will not cease to learn about some of their treachery, excepting a few of them. Yet excuse them and forbear. Indeed God loves the virtuous.” [^12] قُلْ هَلْ أُنَبِّئُکُم بِشَرٍّ مِّن ذٰلِكَ مَثُوبَةً عِنْدَ اللهِ مَن لَّعَنَهُ اللهُ وَغَضِبَ عَلَیْهِ وَجَعَلَ مِنْهُمُ الْقِرَدَةَ وَالْـخَنَازِیرَ وَعَبَدَ الطَّاغُوتَ أُوْلٰئِكَ شَرٌّ مَّكَاناً وَأَضَلُّ عَن سَوَآءَ السَّبِیلِ “Say, ‘Shall I inform you concerning something worse than that as a requital from God?
Those whom God has cursed and with whom He is wrathful, and turned some of whom into apes and swine, and worshippers of the Rebel!
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