Tafseer of The Bee · An-Nahl · 16:34
So they were struck by the evil consequences of what they did and were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.
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He, exalted be His mention, says: Then these peoples of the former communities — who did just as these polytheists of Quraysh do — were struck by the evil consequences of what they perpetrated, that is to say: the punishments for their sins and the retributions for the transgressions which they committed. (وَحَاقَ بِهِمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ) — He says: and the punishment of Allah descended upon them — that which they used to mock and deride when the messengers of Allah warned them of it — and it struck them and not others among the people who believed in Allah.
