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Surah ash-Shams ayah 14

Arabic text

Fa kadhdhabu hu fa 'aqaru hu fa damdama alayhim rabbuhum bi dhanbihim fa sawwa ha

Then they denied him and they killed it. So their Lord destroyed them because of their sin and made them equal in destruction

The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah:

But they defied the injunction and Uhaimir Thamud, to whom the people had taken an oath of allegiance, hamstrung it. This act of defiance invited the wrath of Allah and the people of Thamud were destroyed