The Criterion
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[25:39]
and unto each of them did We proffer lessons, and each of them did We destroy with utter destruction.

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* v.39 : Sc., “which they failed to heed.” For my rendering of mathal, in this context, as “lesson,” see note 104 on 17:89.