Re: Serious Question
is earthquake a punishment?
YUSUFALI: But they rejected him: Then the mighty Blast seized them, and they lay prostrate in their homes by the morning.
PICKTHAL: But they denied him, and the dreadful earthquake took them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling place.
SHAKIR: But they rejected him, so a severe earthquake overtook them, and they became motionless bodies in their abode.