Tafseer of The Spider · Al-Ankaboot · 29:37
But they denied him, so the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.
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The explanation of the statement of the Exalted: فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الرَّجْفَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ (37) (But they denied him, whereupon the earthquake seized them, and they lay prostrate (dead) in their dwelling. (29:37))
The Exalted, whose remembrance is lofty, says: the people of Madyan denied Shuʿayb in that which he brought them from Allah as a message, whereupon the earthquake of the punishment seized them, فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ (and they lay prostrate in their dwelling) — crouched down, one upon another, like dead men.
As Bishr related to us; he said: Yazīd related to us; he said: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda: فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ — that is to say: like dead men.
