Apes

And you had already known about those who transgressed among you concerning the sabbath, and We said to them, "Be apes, despised."

Say, "Shall I inform you of [what is] worse than that¹ 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.² Those are worse in position and further astray from the sound way."

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