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Ghāfir 40:5 Juzʾ 24 Page 467

‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏

The people of Noah denied before them and the [disbelieving] factions after them, and every nation intended [a plot] for their messenger to seize him, and they disputed by [using] falsehood to [attempt to] invalidate thereby the truth. So I seized them, and how [terrible] was My penalty.

Read in the muṣḥaf

قَوْلُهُ تَعالى: ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏ .

أخْرَجَ الطَّبَرانِيُّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبّاسٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قالَ: «مَن أعانَ باطِلًا لِيُدْحِضَ بِباطِلِهِ حَقًّا فَقَدْ بَرِئَتْ مِنهُ ذِمَّةُ اللَّهِ وذِمَّةُ رَسُولِهِ» .

The same ayah, in another commentary

Ghāfir 40:5