Physical trials and punishments

The verses

Closest to the group’s centre first.

• Ash-Shams 91:14✦ skyread

  فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُم بِذَنۢبِهِمْ فَسَوَّىٰهَا

  But they denied him and hamstrung her. So their Lord brought down upon them destruction for their sin and made it equal [upon all of them].

• Al-A'raaf 7:78✦ skyread

  فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ فِى دَارِهِمْ جَٰثِمِينَ

  So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.

• Al-A'raaf 7:91✦ skyread

  فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ فِى دَارِهِمْ جَٰثِمِينَ

  So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.

• Al-Ankaboot 29:37✦ skyread

  فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ فِى دَارِهِمْ جَٰثِمِينَ

  But they denied him, so the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.

• Al-Qamar 54:19✦ skyread

  إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا فِى يَوْمِ نَحْسٍ مُّسْتَمِرٍّ

  Indeed, We sent upon them a screaming wind on a day of continuous misfortune,

• Al-Maaida 5:79✦ skyread

  كَانُوا۟ لَا يَتَنَاهَوْنَ عَن مُّنكَرٍ فَعَلُوهُ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْعَلُونَ

  They used not to prevent one another from wrongdoing that they did. How wretched was that which they were doing.

• Hud 11:67✦ skyread

  وَأَخَذَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ فِى دِيَٰرِهِمْ جَٰثِمِينَ

  And the shriek seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes [corpses] fallen prone

• As-Saaffaat 37:145✦ skyread

  فَنَبَذْنَٰهُ بِٱلْعَرَآءِ وَهُوَ سَقِيمٌ

  But We threw him onto the open shore while he was ill.

• Al-Maaida 5:30✦ skyread

  فَطَوَّعَتْ لَهُۥ نَفْسُهُۥ قَتْلَ أَخِيهِ فَقَتَلَهُۥ فَأَصْبَحَ مِنَ ٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ

  And his soul permitted to him the murder of his brother, so he killed him and became among the losers.

• Adh-Dhaariyat 51:29✦ skyread

  فَأَقْبَلَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ فِى صَرَّةٍ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٌ

  And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and said, "[I am] a barren old woman!"

• Al-Haaqqa 69:46✦ skyread

  ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ ٱلْوَتِينَ

  Then We would have cut from him the aorta.

• Yusuf 12:25✦ skyread

  وَٱسْتَبَقَا ٱلْبَابَ وَقَدَّتْ قَمِيصَهُۥ مِن دُبُرٍ وَأَلْفَيَا سَيِّدَهَا لَدَا ٱلْبَابِ قَالَتْ مَا جَزَآءُ مَنْ أَرَادَ بِأَهْلِكَ سُوٓءًا إِلَّآ أَن يُسْجَنَ أَوْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

  And they both raced to the door, and she tore his shirt from the back, and they found her husband at the door. She said, "What is the recompense of one who intended evil for your wife but that he be imprisoned or a painful punishment?"

• Ash-Shams 91:12✦ skyread

  إِذِ ٱنۢبَعَثَ أَشْقَىٰهَا

  When the most wretched of them was sent forth.

• Saad 38:33✦ skyread

  رُدُّوهَا عَلَىَّ فَطَفِقَ مَسْحًۢا بِٱلسُّوقِ وَٱلْأَعْنَاقِ

  [He said], "Return them to me," and set about striking [their] legs and necks.

• Al-Qamar 54:13✦ skyread

  وَحَمَلْنَٰهُ عَلَىٰ ذَاتِ أَلْوَٰحٍ وَدُسُرٍ

  And We carried him on a [construction of] planks and nails,

• Maryam 19:23✦ skyread

  فَأَجَآءَهَا ٱلْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ ٱلنَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَٰلَيْتَنِى مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًا مَّنسِيًّا

  And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."

• Al-Haaqqa 69:7✦ skyread

  سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَٰنِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى ٱلْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ

  Which Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

• As-Saaffaat 37:142✦ skyread

  فَٱلْتَقَمَهُ ٱلْحُوتُ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌ

  Then the fish swallowed him, while he was blameworthy.

• Al-Maaida 5:31✦ skyread

  فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ غُرَابًا يَبْحَثُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُرِيَهُۥ كَيْفَ يُوَٰرِى سَوْءَةَ أَخِيهِ قَالَ يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰٓ أَعَجَزْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَ هَٰذَا ٱلْغُرَابِ فَأُوَٰرِىَ سَوْءَةَ أَخِى فَأَصْبَحَ مِنَ ٱلنَّٰدِمِينَ

  Then Allah sent a crow searching in the ground to show him how to hide the disgrace of his brother. He said, "O woe to me! Have I failed to be like this crow and hide the body of my brother?" And he became of the regretful.

• An-Nahl 16:58✦ skyread

  وَإِذَا بُشِّرَ أَحَدُهُم بِٱلْأُنثَىٰ ظَلَّ وَجْهُهُۥ مُسْوَدًّا وَهُوَ كَظِيمٌ

  And when one of them is informed of [the birth of] a female, his face becomes dark, and he suppresses grief.

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