``Then We made their fate (OF BEING APES) an example for their own generation and their posterity.

      This event is commentated in detail in S 7: 163-166. Here we give a brief account of it that: ``The punishment for breach of the SABBATH under the MOSAIC LAW was death.

exodus 31: 14

      There was a fishing community in a seaside town. It happened so that in the very SABBATH DAY, more and more fishes appeared on the top of the sea water! This allured the fishermen, so that by a mischievous trick, they made fish pounders for entrapping in SABBATH, and catching them in the other days- A mere pretence to deceive the LAW.

      For such a breaking of the Sabbath they were turned to apes by Allah's Command! because they played fast and loose with their rites and LAW.