Township
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Children of Israel were commanded to enter into a township
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A settled town
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Or (bethink thee of) the like of him who,
passing by a township which had fallen into utter ruin,
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and of the feeble among men and of the women and 
the children who are crying: 
Our Lord! Bring us forth from out this town of 
which the people are oppressors!
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And this is a blessed Scripture which We have
revealed, confirming that which (was revealed)
before it, that thou mayst warn the Mother of
Villages and those around her
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And thus have We made in every city great ones of
its wicked ones, that they should plot therein.
They do but plot against themselves, though
they perceive not.
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This is because thy Lard destroyeth not the townships
arbitrarily while their people are unconscious
(of the wrong they do).
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How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid
by night, or while they slept at noon,
Our terror came unto them.
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And the  answer of his people was only that they
said (one to another): Turn them out of your
township. They are folk, forsooth, who keep pure.
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The chieftains of his people, who were scornful,
said: Surely we will drive thee out, O Shueyb,
and those who believe with thee, from our
township, unless ye return to our religion.
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And We sent no prophet unto any township but We
did afflict its folk with tribulation and
adversity that haply they might grow humble
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And if the people of the townships had believed
and kept from evil, surely We should have opened
for them, blessings from the sky and from the earth.
But (unto every messenger) they gave the lie,
and so We seized them on account of what
they used to earn
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Are the people of the townships then secure from the
coming of Our wrath, upon them as a night raid
while they sleep?
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Or are the people of the townships then secure
from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the
daytime while they play?
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Such were the townships. We relate some tidings
of them unto thee (Muhammad). Their messengers
verily came unto them with clear proofs (of Allah's
Sovereignty), but they could not believe because
they had before denied. Thus doth Allah print upon
the hearts of disbelievers (that they hear not).
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And when it was said unto them: Dwell in this township
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Ask them (O Muhammad) of the township that was by the sea,
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If only there had been a community (of all those
that were destroyed of old) that believed and
profited by its belief as did the folk of Jonah
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