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Adnan Oktar                        91


            describes how He sent them plagues of floods, locusts,
            lice, frogs, and blood as well as signs, but that they were
            arrogant and doers of evil.
               He says that He utterly destroyed what Pharaoh and his
            people had made and the buildings they had constructed,
            and inflicted the harshest punishment upon them.


               The torment of the people of Thamud
               The punishment inflicted on the people of Thamud, who
            did not believe Prophet Salih (as), consisted of mass
            destruction: their wrecked, abandoned, and ruined dwell-
            ings were left standing as a deterrent to others, they spent
            the night on their knees because of the terrible noise, they
            were caught up in earthquakes, they resembled dry grass
            being scythed down, and they were struck by lightning as
            they looked on.


               The flood that engulfed Nuh’s (as) people
               Nuh’s (as) unbelieving people, who oppressed those
            with him, were drowned in a terrible flood. As Allah said
            previously, they were seized hold of inexorably by the
            “great blast” and turned into dirty scum.


               The torment of the people of ‘Ad
               The terrible torments inflicted on the people of ‘Ad
            ended in their total destruction and eradication.
               An unbearable noise strikes the people of Madyan
               The punishment inflicted on the people of Madyan, who


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