قَدۡ مَكَرَ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبۡلِهِمۡ فَأَتَى ٱللَّهُ بُنۡيَٰنَهُم مِّنَ ٱلۡقَوَاعِدِ فَخَرَّ عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلسَّقۡفُ مِن فَوۡقِهِمۡ وَأَتَىٰهُمُ ٱلۡعَذَابُ مِنۡ حَيۡثُ لَا يَشۡعُرُونَ
Those who were before them [had also] schemed. Then Allah came at their edifice from the foundations and the roof fell down upon them from above and the punishment overtook them whence they were not aware.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 16:26
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 16:26] Allah gives the rope of respite to the disbelievers and the wicked in which they hang themselves in the end. Evil always devises plots against good, but the evil-doers finally shall be overcome and shall be mustered towards hell so that Allah may distinguish the evil from the good, as has been said in al Anfal: 36. Some say the reference is also to the imposing structure Namrud built which when it was completed collapsed at the command of Allah by a violent storm, after which the people of Namrud lost memory of their language and began to speak in seventy different dialects, each quite unlike and different from the other.
Ali Muhammad Fazil Chinoy Commentary
Commentary on Quran 16:26-34
Neither a faithful nor an infidel dies but before his death sees his destination or paradise or perdition opened out to him, when he feels certain about eternity.