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Al-Baqarah 2: 56–9

Thereupon a tremendous thunderbolt struck you before your very eyes. (56) Then We revived you after your extinc- tion, that you might be grateful.

(57) And We caused a cloud to comfort you with shade, and We sent down upon you manna and the quails, (saying): “Eat of the good wherewithal that We have provided you as sustenance.” And by their sinning (your forefathers) did not wrong Us: it is they them- selves whom they wronged.

(58) And recall when We said: “Go into this town and eat abundantly of its food; but enter the gate prostrate, saying, “Repentance”.24 We will forgive you your sins and shall bestow more favour on the doers of good.” (59) Then the wrong-doers substituted another saying for that which had been given them; and so We sent down a scourge upon the wrong-doers from the heavens for their transgression.

24 Hittah could either mean that when they entered the town they should seek God’s pardon for their sins or that instead of plundering and massacring people in the wake of their conquest, they should proclaim an amnesty.

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