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But they denied him, with regard to his saying this [as being a command] from Allahu ta’ālā - which if they contravened would immediately result in chastisement being sent down on them - then hamstrung her, they slew it in order to appropriate her [share of the] drinking water. So their Rabb closed in on them, the chastisement, because of their sin, and meted it equally [among them], that is, the closing in on them, in other words, He subsumed them all by it, so that not one of them escaped.