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Aya 60
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قُل هَل أُنَبِّئُكُم بِشَرٍّ مِن ذٰلِكَ مَثوبَةً عِندَ اللَّهِ ۚ مَن لَعَنَهُ اللَّهُ وَغَضِبَ عَلَيهِ وَجَعَلَ مِنهُمُ القِرَدَةَ وَالخَنازيرَ وَعَبَدَ الطّاغوتَ ۚ أُولٰئِكَ شَرٌّ مَكانًا وَأَضَلُّ عَن سَواءِ السَّبيلِ

Yusuf Ali

Say: “Shall I point out to you something much worse than this, (as judged) by the treatment it received from God. those who incurred the curse of God and His wrath, those of whom some He transformed into apes and swine,1 those who worshipped evil;- these are (many times) worse in rank, and far more astray from the even path!”
  • For apes see 2:65. For men possessed by devils, and the devils being sent into swine, see Matt. 8:28-32. Or perhaps both apes and swine are allegorical: those who falsified God’s scriptures became lawless like apes, and those who succumbed to filth, gluttony, or gross living became like swine.