فَلَمَّا عَتَوْا۟ عَن مَّا نُهُوا۟ عَنْهُ قُلْنَا لَهُمْ كُونُوا۟ قِرَدَةً خَٰسِـِٔينَ
So when they were insolent about that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, "Be apes, despised."
Al-A'raf 7:166
Juz 9 · Page 172Context
Revelation context of the surah
Surah-wideAl-A'raf is Meccan and one of the longest surahs of the late Meccan period. Through the stories of prophets such as Noah, Hud, Salih, Lot, Shu'ayb and Moses, it warns the resistant Meccan society by recounting the fate of earlier nations that rejected their messengers.
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