and as for the tribe of the thamud we guided them but they preferred blindness to the guidance wherefore the bolt of the torment of abjection laid hold of them because of that which they had been earning.
وأما ثمود فهديناهم فاستحبوا العمى على الهدى فأخذتهم صاعقة العذاب الهون بما كانوا يكسبون