كَذَّبَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَىٰهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
Kazzabal lazeena min qablihim fa ataahumul 'azaabu min haisu laa yash'uroon
Those before them denied, and punishment came upon them from where they did not perceive.
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Lessons from past peoples
39:25Ayah 175
2 ayahs in Az-Zumar are strongly about lessons from past peoples. This is one of them.
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Those who were before them denied their messengers with regard to the coming of the chastisement; and so the chastisement came on them whence they were not aware in a way that would never have occurred to them.
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This calamity or illness was a punishment with which were punished some of the nations before you. Then it was left upon the earth. It goes away once and comes back again. He who heard of its presence in a land should not go towards it, and he who happened to be in a land where it had broken out should not fly from it.
This happened before the prescribed punishments(hudud) were revealed, meaning the tradition of Anas.
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