Saba (Sheba)

Verse 17

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    17. “This We recompensed them for their disbelief; and do We ever recompense any but the ungrateful?”

    The Divine retributions are Allah’s way of treatment and a godly law against evil doers, and they are not allocated to the People of Sheba.

    As a conclusion, this verse explicitly implies that this was a chastisement that Allah gave them for their own infidelity.

    The verse says:

    “This We recompensed them for their disbelief…”

    But in order that no one considers that this fate belongs to only this group, but its generality unto all those who have similar actions is certain, it says:

    “…and do We ever recompense any but the ungrateful?”