فَخَسَفْنَا بِهِۦ وَبِدَارِهِ ٱلْأَرْضَ فَمَا كَانَ لَهُۥ مِن فِئَةٍۢ يَنصُرُونَهُۥ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُنتَصِرِينَ
Fakhasafnaa bihee wa bidaarihil arda famaa kaana laho min fi'atiny yansuroo nahoo min doonil laahi wa maa kaana minal muntasireen
And We caused the earth to swallow him and his home. And there was for him no company to aid him other than Allah, nor was he of those who [could] defend themselves.
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28:81Ayah 188
42 ayahs in Al-Qasas are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
← Previous on Lessons from past peoples28:79So he came out before his people in his adornment. Those who desired the worldly life said, "Oh, would that we had like what was given to Qarun. Indeed,Next on Lessons from past peoples →28:82And those who had wished for his position the previous day began to say, "Oh, how Allah extends provision to whom He wills of His servants and restricts it!
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So We caused the earth to swallow him Korah and his dwelling and he had no host to help him besides God that is other than Him to protect him from destruction nor was he of those who can rescue themselves from it.
Related Hadiths
"A man among those before you went out arrogantly in a Hullah of his. So Allah ordered the earth to take him. He remains sinking" - or he said - "He will remain sinking into it until the Day of Judgement."
“The
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent us
on a campaign, and a Muslim man
attacked an idolater man.” And he
mentioned the Hadith and added: “And
the earth cast him out. The
Prophet (ﷺ) was told about that and he
said: ‘The earth accepts
those who are worse than him, but Allah
wanted to show you how great
is the sanctity of La ilaha illallah.’”
There was a person who walked with pride because of his (fine) mantles and well pleased with his personality. Allah made him sink in the earth and he would go on sinking in that until the Day of Resurrection.
“I had built a house to shelter
me
from the rain and the sun, during the time of Allah’s Messenger
(ﷺ), and no creature of Allah helped me in building it.”
When the Prophet (May peace e upon him) commanded to stone Ma’iz b. Malik, we took him out to Baql. I swear by Allah, we did not tie him, nor did we dig a pit for him. But he was standing before us. The narrator Abu Kamil said: So we threw at him bones, clods of mud and pieces of earthenware. He ran away and we ran after him till he came to a side of the Harrah. He stood there before us and we threw at him big stones of the Harrah until he died. He (the Prophet) did not ask forgiveness for him, nor did he speak ill of him.
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