7.161 - And when it was said to them: Dwell in this village and eat from it wherever you will, and say, relieve us from our burdens, and enter the gate prostrating. We will forgive you your sins, We will increase to the doers of good. 7.162 - But those who were unjust among them changed it for a saying other than that which had been spoken to them; so We sent upon them a plague from the sky for what they used to do of injustice. 7.163 - And ask them about the village which was by the sea; when they transgressed in the Sabbath, when their whales come to them on the day of their Sabbath to the surface, and on the day on which they had no Sabbath they did not come to them; thus did We try them because they were disobedient. 7.164 - And when a nation among them said: Why do you admonish a people whom Allah will destroy or castigate with a severe torture? They said: To be absolved before your Lord, and perhaps they will fear. 7.165 - And when they forgot that by which they had been reminded, We saved those who had forbidden evil and seized those who were unjust with a dreadful torture because they were disobedient. 7.166 - So when they persisted on what they had been forbidden, We said to them: Be apes, despised. 7.167 - And when your Lord declared that He would surely send upon them until the day of resurrection those who would subject them to the worst of torture. Indeed, your Lord is swift in punishment; and indeed, He is Forgiving, Merciful. 7.168 - And We divided them in the earth into nations. Among them were the righteous and among them were otherwise. And We tried them with good and bad that perhaps they would return. 7.169 - And there followed after them successors who inherited the book, they take commodity of this lower life, and they say: It will be forgiven for us. And if an offer like it comes to them, they would take it. Was not the covenant of the book taken from them that they would not speak about Allah except the truth, and they studied what is in it? And the home of the hereafter is better for those who fear, so will you not understand? 7.170 - And those who hold to the book and establish prayer; indeed, We do not waste the reward of those who amend.
