25فَأَخَذَهُ اللَّهُ نَكالَ الآخِرَةِ وَالأولىٰMuhammad AsadAnd thereupon God took him to task, [and made him] a warning example in the life to come as well as in this world.1Lit., "in the first [life]". See last sentence of 7:137 - "We utterly destroyed all that Pharaoh and his people had wrought, and all that they had built" - and the corresponding note 100.