as a grace ni‘matan is a verbal noun that is to say in‘āman ‘an act of grace’ from Us. So like that requital do We requite him who gives thanks for Our graces and is a believer or it means him who is a believer in God and His messenger and is obedient to both.
And verily he had warned them Lot had threatened them of Our strike Our seizing them with chastisement but they disputed they contested and denied the warnings his warning.
And they had even solicited of him his guests that he should let them have their own way with those who had come to him as guests that they may do wicked things with them — and these guests were angels. So We blotted out their eyes We blinded them and made them without slits […]
But they called their companion Qudār to slay it so he took he drew his sword and he hamstrung with it the She-camel in other words he slew her in compliance with their wish.
How then were My chastisement and My warnings? My warning them of chastisement before it was sent down? In other words it was justified. He explains it their chastisement by saying
Indeed We unleashed upon them a single Cry and they became like the chaff of a corral builder al-muhtazir is one who makes a pen from dried tree-branches and thorns for his sheep to protect them from wolves and beasts of prey; the fallen parts which they tread are called hashīm.
And verily We have made the Qur’ān easy to remember. So is there anyone who will remember?
tearing people away wrenching them from the holes in the ground in which they had been embedded and flinging them down to the ground head first thereby crushing their necks and severing their heads from their bodies as if they were while lying in this mentioned state trunks of uprooted palm-trees severed and thrown on […]
How then were My chastisement and My warnings?
And verily We have made the Qur’ān easy to remember. So is there anyone who will remember?