The Seizure

Allah seized them for their sins. Allah is severe in punishment.

3:11Like Pharaoh's folk and those who were before them, they disbelieved Our revelations and so Allah seized them for their sins. And Allah is severe in punishment.

7:78So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place.

7:91So the earthquake seized them and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place.

7:95Then changed We the evil plight for good till they grew affluent and said: Tribulation and distress did touch our fathers. Then We seized them unawares, when they perceived not.

7:96And if the people of the townships had believed and kept from evil, surely We should have opened for them blessings from the sky and from the earth. But (unto every messenger) they gave the lie, and so We seized them on account of what they used to earn.

7:165And when they forgot that whereof they had been reminded, We rescued those who forbade wrong, and visited those who did wrong with dreadful punishment because they were evil-livers.

8:52(Their way is) as the way of Pharaoh's folk and those before them; they disbelieved the revelations of Allah, and Allah took them in their sins. Lo! Allah is Strong, severe in punishment.

13:32And verily messengers (of Allah) were mocked before thee, but long I bore with those who disbelieved. At length I seized them, and how (awful) was My punishment!

22:44(And) the dwellers in Midian. And Moses was denied; but I indulged the disbelievers a long while, then I seized them, and how (terrible) was My abhorrence!

22:48And how many a township did I suffer long though it was sinful! Then I grasped it. Unto Me is the return.

23:41So the (Awful) Cry overtook them rightfully, and We made them like as wreckage (that a torrent hurleth). A far removal for wrongdoing folk!

23:64Till when We grasp their luxurious ones with the punishment, behold! they supplicate.

26:156And touch her not with ill lest there come on you the retribution of an awful day.

26:158So the retribution came on them. Lo! herein is indeed a portent, yet most of them are not believers.

26:189But they denied him, so there came on them the retribution of the day of gloom. Lo! it was the retribution of an awful day.

29:37But they denied him, and the dreadful earthquake took them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling place.

29:40So We took each one in his sin; of them was he on whom We sent a hurricane, and of them was he who was overtaken by the (Awful) Cry, and of them was he whom We caused the earth to swallow, and of them was he whom We drowned. It was not for Allah to wrong them, but they wronged themselves.

33:61Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.

34:51Couldst thou but see when they are terrified with no escape, and are seized from near at hand,

35:26Then seized I those who disbelieved, and how intense was My abhorrence!

36:49They await but one Shout, which will surprise them while they are disputing.

40:5The folk of Noah and the factions after them denied (their messengers) before these, and every nation purposed to seize their messenger and argued falsely, (thinking) thereby to refute the Truth. Then I seized them, and how (awful) was My punishment.

40:21Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those who disbelieved before them? They were mightier than these in power and (in the) traces (which they left behind them) in the earth. Yet Allah seized them for their sins, and they had no protector from Allah.

40:22That was because their messengers kept bringing them clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty) but they disbelieved; so Allah seized them. Lo! He is Strong, severe in punishment.

41:17And as for Thamud, We gave them guidance, but they preferred blindness to the guidance, so the bolt of the doom of humiliation overtook them because of what they used to earn.

43:48And every token that We showed them was greater than its sister (token), and We grasped them with the torment, that haply they might turn again.

51:44But they rebelled against their Lord's decree, and so the thunderbolt overtook them even while they gazed;

54:42Who denied Our revelations, every one. Therefore We grasped them with the grasp of the Mighty, the Powerful.

55:41The guilty will be known by their marks, and will be taken by the forelocks and the feet.

69:10And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, therefor did He grip them with a tightening grip.

73:16But Pharaoh rebelled against the messenger, whereupon We seized him with no gentle grip.

79:25So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former.