Tafseer of The Rock · Al-Hijr · 15:82
And they used to carve from the mountains, houses, feeling secure.
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The Exalted says: The inhabitants of al-Ḥijr — they are the Thamūd, the people of Ṣāliḥ — يَنْحِتُونَ مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا آمِنِينَ (they hew out houses from the mountains, secure): secure from the punishment of Allah. It was also said: secure from decay, because their houses hewn out of the mountains would not collapse. And it was said: secure from death.
