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going to be left secure amid what is here, amid And ‘Ad and Thamud–it must be clear to you
gardens and clear springs, and cultivated fields from their dwelling places! Satan made their ac-
and palms with supple spathes? Will you con- tions seem good to them and so debarred them
tinue hewing houses from the mountains with from the Way, even though they were intelligent
exultant skill? So have fear of Allah and obey me. people. (29:38)
Do not obey the orders of the profligate, those And Thamud and the people of Lut and the
who corrupt the earth and do not put things Companions of the Thicket. Those too were
right.’ (26:141-152) Confederates. Each one of them denied the
They said, ‘You are merely someone bewitched. Messengers and so My punishment was justly
You are nothing but a human being like our- carried out. (38:13-14)
selves, so produce a Sign if you are telling the The man who believed said, ‘My people! I fear
truth.’ (26:153-154) for you a day like that of the Confederates, the
He said, ‘Here is a she-camel. She has a time for same as happened to the people of Nuh and ‘Ad
drinking and you have a time for drinking–on and Thamud and those who followed after them.
specified days. Do not do anything to harm her Allah does not want any injustice for His ser-
or the punishment of a terrible day will come vants.’ (40:30-31)
down on you.’ (26:155-156) If they turn away, then say, ‘I warn you of a light-
But they hamstrung her and woke up full of re- ning-bolt like the lightning-bolt of ‘Ad and of
morse, for the punishment did come down them. Thamud.’ When the Messengers came to them
There is certainly a Sign in that, yet most of them from in front and from behind, saying, ‘Do not
are not believers. Truly your Lord is the Almighty, worship anyone but Allah’, they said, ‘If our Lord
the Most Merciful. (26:157-159) had willed, He could have sent angels down, so
To Thamud We sent their brother Salih telling we reject the Message you have been sent with.’
them to worship Allah, and straightaway they di- (41:13-14)
vided in two, arguing with one another. He said, As for Thamud, We guided them, but they pre-
‘My people, why are you so anxious to hasten ferred blindness to guidance. So the lightning-
the bad before the good? If only you would ask bolt of the punishment of humiliation seized
for forgiveness from Allah, so that mercy might them on account of what they earned. And We
perhaps be shown to you.’ They said, ‘We see rescued those who believed and guarded against
you, and those with you, as an evil omen.’ He evil. (41:17-18)
said, ‘No, your evil omen is with Allah; you are Before them the people of Nuh also denied the
merely a people undergoing a trial.’ There was a truth and the Companions of Rass and Thamud,
group of nine men in the city causing corruption (50:12)
in the land and not putting things right. They And also in Thamud, when they were told:
said, ‘Let us make an oath to one another by ‘Enjoy yourselves a while!’ But they spurned their
Allah that we will fall on him and his family in Lord’s command,so the Blast seized them as they
the night and then say to his protector, "We did looked. They could not stand upright and they
not witness the destruction of his family and we were not helped. (51:43-45)
are telling the truth."’ They hatched a plot and And (He destroyed) Thamud as well, sparing
We hatched a plot while they were not aware. So none of them, (53:51)
look at the end result of all their plotting; We ut- Thamud denied the warnings. They said, ‘Are we
terly destroyed them and their whole people! to follow a human being, one of us? Then we
These are the ruins of their houses because of the would truly be misguided, quite insane! Has the
wrong they did. There is certainly a Sign in that Reminder been given to him of all of us? No in-
for people with knowledge. We rescued those deed! He is an impudent liar.’ ‘They will know
who believed and who guarded against evil. tomorrow who the impudent liar is. We will send
(27:45-53) the she-camel as a trial for them. Just keep a
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