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God has proved true, along with truthful.’ He said, ‘God alone
all the communities that went knows when it will come, and I
before them, jinns and humans: deliver to you the message with
surely they are losers. which I am sent, but I see you are
19 All will be ranked according a people who are ignorant.’
to their deeds. We will requite 24 So, when they saw it in the
them in full for their actions and shape of a dense cloud
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they will not be wronged. On approaching their valleys, they
the Day when those who deny exclaimed, ‘This is only a heavy
the truth are brought before the cloud which will bring us
Fire, it will be said to them, ‘You [welcome] rain!’ [But Hud said]:
have had the good things of the ‘By no means! It is the very thing
life of this world, and you which you sought to hasten—a
enjoyed them. Now this Day you wind bearing grievous suffering
shall be requited with humiliating 25 which will destroy everything
punishment, because you were at its Lord’s behest!’ And in the
arrogant in the land without morning there was nothing left
justification, and because you to be seen save their [empty]
acted rebelliously.’ dwellings: thus We repay the
21 Tell of the brother of ‘Ad; evil-doers.
when he warned his people in 26 We had empowered them to
the sand dunes—and indeed an extent which We have not
warners came and went before empowered you, [O people of
him and after him—saying, later times]; and We had endowed
‘Worship none but God; surely I them with hearing, and sight,
fear for you the punishment of and hearts: but neither their
an awful Day,’ 22 but they said, hearing, nor their sight, nor their
‘Have you come to us to turn us hearts were of the least avail to
away from our deities? Then them, since they went on
bring down upon us what you rejecting God’s revelations; and
threaten us with, if you are they were overwhelmed by the