then when we decreed death nothing showed them his death except a little worm of the earth which kept gnawing away at his staff so when he fell down the jinns saw plainly that if they had known the unseen they would not have tarried in the humiliating penalty .
فلما قضينا عليه الموت ما دلهم على موته إلا دابة الأرض تأكل منسأته فلما خر تبينت الجن أن لو كانوا يعلمون الغيب ما لبثوا في العذاب المهين