وَمَا نُرِيهِم مِّنْ ءَايَةٍ إِلَّا هِىَ أَكْبَرُ مِنْ أُخْتِهَا ۖ وَأَخَذْنَٰهُم بِٱلْعَذَابِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ
Wa maa nureehim min aayatin illaa hiya akbaru min ukhtihaa wa akhaznaahum bil'azaabi la'allahum yarji'oon
And We showed them not a sign except that it was greater than its sister, and We seized them with affliction that perhaps they might return [to faith].
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Lessons from past peoples
43:48Ayah 189
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And We never showed them a sign from among the signs of chastisement such as the flood which was when the waters of the Nile penetrated their dwellings and for seven days rose as high as their throats as they sat or the chastisement of the locusts but it was greater than the one before it the one immediately preceding it. And We seized them with chastisement that perhaps they might recant their disbelief.
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