فَمَا زَالَت تِّلْكَ دَعْوَىٰهُمْ حَتَّىٰ جَعَلْنَٰهُمْ حَصِيدًا خَٰمِدِينَ
Famaa zaalat tilka da'waahum hattaa ja'alnaahum haseedan khaamideen
And that declaration of theirs did not cease until We made them [as] a harvest [mowed down], extinguished [like a fire].
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Lessons from past peoples
21:15Ayah 1112
41 ayahs in Al-Anbiyaa are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
← Previous on Lessons from past peoples21:13[Some angels said], "Do not flee but return to where you were given luxury and to your homes - perhaps you will be questioned."Next on Lessons from past peoples →21:41And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.
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So that saying remained their cry which they would make and repeat until We made them as reaped crops as crops harvested with sickles when they were killed with the sword stilled dead like the stillness of fire when it is extinguished.
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It was easy for the nobles of Quraish to burn Buwaira whose sparks were flying in all directions,
in the same connection was revealed the Qur'anic verse:" Whatever trees you have cut down or left standing on their trunks."
We would let you continue there so long as we will desire. So they continued (to cultivate the lands) till 'Umar externed them to Taima' ang Ariha (two villages in Arabia, but out of Hijaz).
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