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Troublesome Animals
So We sent down on them floods, locusts, lice, frogs and blood,
Signs, clear and distinct, but they proved arrogant and were an evildo-
ing people. (Surat al-A'raf, 133)

Flood Calamities
But they turned away so We unleashed against them the flood from
the great dam and exchanged their two gardens for two others con-
taining bitter-tasting plants and tamarisk and a few lote trees. (Surah
Saba', 16)
And made the earth burst forth with gushing springs. And the wa-
ters met together in a way which was decreed. (Surat al-Qamar, 12)
It was said, 'Earth, swallow up your water!' and, 'Heaven, hold back
your rain!' And the water subsided and the affair was concluded and
the Ark came to land on al-Judi. And it was said, 'Away with the peo-
ple of the wrongdoers!' (Surah Hud, 44)
We sent Nuh to his people and he remained among them for fifty
short of a thousand years; yet the Flood engulfed them while they
were wrongdoers. (Surat al-'Ankabut, 14)
An Awful Blast
The Great Blast seized hold of those who did wrong and morning
found them lying flattened in their homes. (Surah Hud, 67)
When Our command came, We rescued Shu'ayb and those who be-
lieved along with him by a mercy from Us. The Great Blast seized hold
of those who did wrong and morning found them lying flattened in
their homes. (Surah Hud, 94)
So the Great Blast seized hold of them at the break of day. (Surat al-
Hijr, 73)
The Great Blast seized hold of them inexorably and We turned them
into dirty scum. Away with the people of the wrongdoers! (Surat al-
Mu'minun, 41)
Thamud were destroyed by the Deafening Blast. (Surat al-Haqqa, 5)
Rain of Stones of Clay
When Our command came, We turned their cities upside down and
rained down on them stones of hard baked clay. (Surah Hud, 82 )