In the aforementioned verses, the stories of seven communities of the ancient, and part of the life and histories of their prophets; and also the adventurous life of man, and some of its hazardous enterprises, has been related. And then the latter four verses close up the narration briefly:ِ
``There are the news of the towns that We relate it to you. Of them some are standing like Egypt, and some have been mown down by the sickle of their sin.'' ``Don't you ever think that We oppress our servants. Never so! They oppressed themselves by transgressing the natural bounds of their life.'' God is always kind and Merciful to His creatures. If He punishes them, his punishment too is just, and for some sort of amendment; and it too is a Mercy from Him.
People adhered to their idols and false gods who added nothing to them except perdition or misery! Falsehood will eventually vanish, and give its place to truth; so, those who grasp the false things and false gods will earn nothing of them, except misery and distress.
It is a general Divine Law, and a natural programme in the God's universal plan, that, when a people stretch out their hands in oppression and sin, and transgress the bounds that God has established for their own good; and worst of all, they pay no heed to the admonitions and warnings of the apostles, God will seize them by their sins and throw them in a trap of painful punishment.
The Arabic, 'ZOLM' that we have translated to, 'OPPRESSION' is a very comprehensive word with many shades of meaning, and ti consists of all sorts of sins and guilts.
In the above stories that have been narrated, there are clear signs from our Lord, and useful lessons to be taken, if a person seeks for salvation, and want to get rid of the punishments of this present life, and that of the Last Judgment in the Resurrection Day.