Ash-Shams Verse 14

Still they defied him and slaughtered her. So their Lord crushed them for their crime, levelling all to the ground.[[ It is true that while Qudâr ibn Sâlif was the individual who killed the camel, the rest of the people were supportive of what he did, so they were all punished collectively. ]]

Yet they rejected him and hamstrung her. So their Lord destroyed them for their sin and leveled them to the ground.

But they cried him lies, and hamstrung her, so their Lord crushed them for their sin, and leveled them:

but they called him a liar and hamstrung her. Their Lord destroyed them for their crime and levelled them.

Then they belied him, and they hamstrung her; wherefore their Lord overwhelmed them for their crime, and made it equal.

Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime, obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)!

But they rejected his statement as a lie and hamstrung the she-camel. For that crime their Lord rumbled down upon them, utterly razing them to the ground.

But they called him a liar and hamstrung her. So God obliterated them for their crime, and (destroyed) all of them alike.

In response they belied him, and hamstrung the she camel – so Allah put ruin over them because of their sins and flattened their dwellings.

But they impugned him and hamstrung her. So their Lord took them unawares by night because of their sin, and levelled it.

But they denied him and slaughtered her, and so their Lord crushed them for their sin, and leveled them (with the ground);

But they belied (and disobeyed) him and hamstrung her. Then their Lord destroyed them completely for their sin, so much so that He leveled them (all to the ground).

So they denied him , so they wounded it/slaughtered it/made it infertile, so their Lord became angry/destroyed on them because of their crime, so He straightened it.

In response they belied him, and hamstrung the she camel - so Allah put ruin over them because of their sins and flattened their dwellings.

But they called him a liar, and they ham-strung her; so their Lord destroyed them in their sins, and served them all alike;

Then they denied him and they killed it. So their Lord destroyed them because of their sin, and made them equal in destruction (i.e. all grades of people, rich and poor, strong and weak, etc.)!

And He fears not its consequence.

But they called him a liar and slaughtered her, therefore their Lord crushed them for their sin and levelled them (with the ground).

But they denied him, and they hamstrung her, so Allah doomed them for their sin and rased (their dwellings).

However, they rejected him and slew her. So their Lord completely destroyed them and their city for their sins.

But they belied him, and hamstrung her. So their Lord crushed them for their sin and leveled it (their village).

Then they denied him and they killed it. So their Lord destroyed them because of their sin, Fasawwaha!

But they gave him the lie, and hamstrung the she-camel. So their Lord destroyed them for their crime and razed their city to the ground.

But they called him a liar, and hamstrung her. So their Lord crushed them for their sin, and leveled it.

But they denied him, with regard to his saying this [as being a command] from God -- which if they contravened would immediately result in chastisement being sent down on them -- then hamstrung her, they slew it in order to appropriate her [share of the] drinking water. So their Lord closed in on them, the chastisement, because of their sin, and meted it equally [among them], that is, the closing in on them, in other words, He subsumed them all by it, so that not one of them escaped.

فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَعَقَرُوهَا


Then they denied him and they killed it.

which means they rejected what he came with. This resulted in them killing the she-camel that Allah had brought out of the rock as a sign for them and a proof against them.

فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُم بِذَنبِهِمْ


So their Lord destroyed them because of their sin,

meaning, He became angry with them and He annihilated them.

فَسَوَّاهَا


Fasawwaha!

meaning, He made the punishment descend upon them all equally.

Qatadah said,

"It has reached us that the leader of tribe of Thamud did not kill the she-camel until their youth, their elderly, their males and their females all pledged allegiance to him. So when the people cooperated in killing her, Allah destroyed them all with the same punishment due to their sin."

Allah said