The Cave
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.[18:59]
Such were the populations we destroyed when they committed iniquities; but we fixed an appointed time for their destruction.

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* v.59 : The instances of exemplary Punishment in former times were also subject to this rule, that Allah gives plenty of rope to the wicked, in case they might turn, repent, and obtain His Mercy.