(60) Say, "Shall I inform you of [what is] worse than that[271] as penalty from Allāh? [It is that of] those whom Allāh has cursed and with whom He became angry and made of them apes and pigs and slaves of ṭāghūt.[272] Those are worse in position and further astray from the sound way."
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[271]- Referring to the punishment the People of the Scripture (in their censure of the Muslims) claimed was deserved by them.
[272]- See footnote to 2:256.