Surah 7:90
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وَقَالَ ٱلۡمَلَأُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِن قَوۡمِهِۦ لَئِنِ ٱتَّبَعۡتُمۡ شُعَيۡبًا إِنَّكُمۡ إِذٗا لَّخَٰسِرُونَ
The assembly of those who disbelieved among his people said, ‘If indeed you follow Shu‘ayb, surely then you will be losers indeed.’
فَأَخَذَتۡهُمُ ٱلرَّجۡفَةُ فَأَصۡبَحُواْ فِي دَارِهِمۡ جَٰثِمِينَ
And then the earthquake seized them, and morning found them leveled in their home(s).
ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ شُعَيۡبٗا كَأَن لَّمۡ يَغۡنَوۡاْ فِيهَاۚ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ شُعَيۡبٗا كَانُواْ هُمُ ٱلۡخَٰسِرِينَ
Those who called Shu‘ayb a liar – (it was) as if they had not lived in prosperity there. Those who called Shu‘ayb a liar – they were the losers.
Allah said that the chiefs of Shu'ayb’s people said,
{"If you follow Shu'ayb, be sure then you will be the losers!"} Allah said in response,
Allah said that the earthquake seized them as a corresponding punishment to their threat to Shu'ayb and the believers, when they threatened to expel them from their village. Allah said in another Surah,
This was because they challenged Shu'ayb, saying,
"So cause a piece of the heaven to fall on us, if you are of the truthful!".
Therefore, Allah stated that each of these forms of punishment struck them on the Day of the Shadow. First,
So the torment of the Day of Shadow ( a gloomy cloud) seized them
when a gloomy cloud came over them (containing) fire, flames and a tremendous light. Next, a cry from the sky descended on them and a tremor shook them from beneath. Consequently, their souls were captured, their lives were taken and their bodies became idle,
Allah said next,
meaning, after the torment seized them, it looked as if they never dwelled in the land from which they wanted to expel their Messenger Shu'ayb and his followers. Here, Allah refuted their earlier statement,