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Yet had the people of the towns, the deniers, believed, in Allahu ta’ālā and the messengers (rusul) [sent] to them, and been fearful, of unbelief and acts of disobedience, We would have indeed opened upon them (read la-fatahnā or la-fattahnā) blessings from the heaven, by way of rain, and earth, by way of vegetation; but they denied, the messengers (rusul), and so We seized them, We punished them, on account of what they used to earn.