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THE ARROGANCE OF SATAN

Nuh said, "My Lord, they have disobeyed me and
followed those whose wealth and children have only
increased them in loss. They have hatched a mighty plot
saying, ' Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon

Wadd or Suwa' or Yaghuth or Ya' uq or Nasr.' They have
misguided many people. Do not increase the
wrongdoers in anything but misguidance!"... Nuh said,
"My Lord! do not leave a single one of the disbelievers
on earth!" (Surah Nuh: 21-24, 26)
Allah answered Nuh' s prayer; their arrogance and denial
cost the people of Nuh their lives in this world. In the
hereafter, on the other hand, torment also awaited them:

Because of their errors they were drowned and put into
the Fire. They found no one to help them besides Allah.
(Surah Nuh: 25)

The People of ' Ad

Allah sent the Prophet Hud as His messenger to the
people of ' Ad. He summoned them to Allah' s path but was
responded to with abuse. The arrogance of the people of ' Ad
is related in the Qur' an as follows:
' Ad were arrogant in the land, without any right,
saying, "Who has greater strength than us?" Did they
not see that Allah, Who created them, had greater

strength than them? But they renounced Our Signs.
(Surah Fussilat: 15)
Such pride held before Allah is the utmost extent of
perversion; theirs was an audacity that no other being would
ever dare. They had such a high opinion of their power that