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Surah 26. Ash-Shuara, Ayah 157

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فَعَقَرُوهَا فَأَصْبَحُوا۟ نَـٰدِمِينَ
FaAAaqarooh a faa s ba h oo n a dimeen a
But they cruelly slaughtered her - and then they had cause to regret it:68
  - Mohammad Asad

Lit., "they became regretful". For my rendering of 'aqaruha as "they cruelly slaughtered her", see note [61] on 7:77 .

Yet they hamstrung her, then became full of regrets;
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
But they killed her, becoming regretful.
  - Mustafa Khattab
But they hamstrung her, and then were penitent.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
But they hamstrung her: then did they become full of regrets. 3208
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Their regrets were too late. They had themselves asked for a Sign. The Sign had been given to them in the she-camel, which their prophet Salih had put forward as a test-case. Would they, through that symbol, respect the law of equity by which all people had rights in water and in the gifts of nature? They refused to respect that law, and committed sacrilege by deliberately killing the she-camel. They themselves came to an evil end.

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