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Do they, the disbelievers, await anything but that the angels should come to them (read [feminine person] ta'tīhim or [masculine] ya'tīhim) to seize their spirits, or that there should come your Rabb's command? chastisement, or the resurrection that entails it. So, just as these have done, did those before them, from among the [former] communities: they denied their messengers (rusul) and were therefore destroyed. And Allahu ta’ālā did not wrong them, destroying them for no sin, but they used to wrong themselves, through disbelief.