The Spider
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[29:29]
Must you indeed approach men [with lust], and thus cut across the way [of nature]? – and must you commit these shameful deeds in your [open] assemblies?"
But his people’s only answer was, "Bring down upon us God’s chastisement, if thou art a man of truth!"

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* v.29 : This particular interpretation of the phrase taqta‘ūn as-sabīl is advanced by Baghawī and (on the authority of Al-Hasan) by Zamakhsharī; Rāzī adopts it exclusively and without reservation.