And when their remaining after this was in a state of their disbelief, it was astonishing. For the custom is decisive that whoever is taken will repent, even if he is the most wicked of creation. And he asks for forgiveness from it, whether sincerely or deceitfully, to be freed from what he is in... By their steadfastness in their denial until they were punished shortly thereafter, he said, swearing: "And certainly, He came to them in the morning," meaning: He came to them at the time of morning. And he affirmed the meaning by saying: "in the early morning," meaning: at the beginning of the day, the punishment. And if it were the beginning of your day that you are in, it would have been known, so it was prevented...

"Punishment" means the uprooting of their lands and their raising, then their overturning, and pelting them with stones of fire, and their sinking, and drowning them in the foul water in which no living creature can survive. "Stable" means: firmly established upon them, not departing by illusion or magic, as they said at the time of the obliteration. For indeed, it destroyed them, and it was connected to the punishment of the Barzakh, which is connected to the punishment of the Resurrection, which is connected to the greater punishment in the level that corresponds to their deeds from the punishment of the Fire. And their state of being, if the tongue of speech does not express it, is as if it were saying: