قرد

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Appears 3 times in the Quran.

  1. And certainly you have known those among you who exceeded the limits of the Sabbath, so We said to them: Be (as) apes, despised and hated.

  2. Say: Shall I inform you of (him who is) worse than this in retribution from Allah? (Worse is he) whom Allah has cursed and brought His wrath upon, and of whom He made apes and swine, and he who served the Shaitan; these are worse in place and more erring from the straight path.

  3. Therefore when they revoltingly persisted in what they had been forbidden, We said to them: Be (as) apes, despised and hated.