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wa-ka-dhālika ʾakhdhu rabbika ʾidhā ʾakhadha l-qurā wa-hiya ẓālimatun ʾinna ʾakhdhahū ʾalīmun shadīdun
Such is the seizing of your Lord when He seizes the townships that are wrongdoing. Indeed His seizing is painful and severe.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Hud – Verse 102
102. “And such is the grasp (of punishment) of your Lord when He grasps the townships that are unjust. Verily His grasp (punishment) is painful, severe.”
It is certain that Allah’s punishment is quite hard and painful. The verse says:
“And such is the grasp (of punishment) of your Lord when He grasps the townships that are unjust. Verily His grasp (punishment) is painful, severe.”
This is a general Divine law and an eternal tradition which says that every nation inflicts oppression, violates Divinely established limits, and ignores the leadership, admonitions and guidance of Allah’s prophets, it will be eventually arrested and annihilated by Divine punishment.