as if ka-an is softened in other words understand it as ka-annahum they had never dwelt there ‘Lo! Away with Midian just as Thamūd was done away with!’
- 11:9595
كَأَنْ لَمْ يَغْنَوْا فِيهَا ۗ أَلَا بُعْدًا لِمَدْيَنَ كَمَا بَعِدَتْ ثَمُودُ
As though they had not dwelt there at all. Beware! Condemmed were the people of Midian as those of Thamud had been before them!
- common.revelation-Meccan
- common.hizb : 93