And We destroyed Qarun (Korah) and Pharaoh and Haman. Moses came to them with Clear Signs but they waxed arrogant in the land although they could not have outstripped1 (Us).
Footnotes
[1]
That is, “They could not have gotten away and escaped Allah’s grasp: they had no power to frustrate and defeat Allah’s plans and schemes.”
[2]
According to Ibn ʻAshour and other exegetes, ‘with the truth’ means ‘for a purpose’.