Surah Al-A'raf 7:166

The Heights · Verse 166 of 206 · Juz 9 · Page 172

فَلَمَّا عَتَوْا۟ عَن مَّا نُهُوا۟ عَنْهُ قُلْنَا لَهُمْ كُونُوا۟ قِرَدَةً خَـٰسِـِٔينَ

So when they were insolent about that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, "Be apes, despised."

Translation: Saheeh International

Tafsir

And when they disdained to desist from that which was prohibited to them We said to them ‘Be apes despised!’ abased and they became so this is an explication of what preceded with regard to the details of their ‘grievous chastisement’. Ibn ‘Abbās said ‘I do not know what befell the group that abstained’. …

Excerpt from Tafsir al-Jalalayn, commentary on 7:166, via Quran.com. The reader has the full commentary and 9 more tafsirs.