79فَانتَقَمنا مِنهُم وَإِنَّهُما لَبِإِمامٍ مُبينٍMuhammad Asadand so We inflicted Our retribution on them. And, behold, both these [sinful communities] lived by a highway, [to this day] plain to see.1I.e., the people of Lot and those of Shu'ayb, who inhabited adjacent regions (see surah 7, note 67), and whose fate should be an example as plain to see as the highway which passes through the regions once inhabited by them.