The Bee
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[16:26]
Those who lived before them did, too, devise many a blasphemy – whereupon God visited with destruction all that they had ever built, [striking] at its very foundations, so that the roof fell in upon them from above, and suffering befell them without their having perceived whence it came.

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* v.26 : Lit., “schemed” (makara): i.e., they blasphemed by describing the divine revelations as “fables of ancient times” and by refusing to admit the truth of God’s existence or of His oneness and uniqueness.
* Lit., “their building” (see next note).
* This is obviously a metaphor (Rāzī) describing the utter collapse of all endeavours – both individual and social-rooted in godlessness and false pride.