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to them from before them and behind them, (saying): " Serve none but
Allah," they answered: "Had it been Allah's will, He would have sent
down angels.We reject your message." '
As for Aad, they behaved arrogantly in the land and without right.
'Who is mightier than we? ' they used to say. Could they not see that
Allah, who had created them, was mightier than they? (Yet) they
deniedOur revelations.
So, over a few ill-omened days, We let loose on them a howling
gale, that they might taste the punishment of humiliation in this life;
but more humiliating will be the punishment of the life to come. They
will not be helped.
As for Thamoud, We offered them Our guidance, but they
preferred blindness to guidance. Therefore the stunning punishment of
humiliation seized them because of what they had earned; and We
delivered the believers and those who fearedAllah.
On the day when Allah's opponents will be gathered together they
will be driven into the Fire, so that when they reach it, their ears, their
eyes and their very skins will testify to their deeds. ‘Why did you speak
against us? ' they will say to their skins, and their skins will reply:
'Allah, who gives speech to all things, has made us speak. It was He
who in the beginning created you, and to Him you shall all return. You
did not hide yourselves, so that your eyes and ears and skins could not
bear witness against you. Yet you thought that Allah did not know
much of what you did. It is this illusion concerning your Lord that has
ruined you, so that you are now among the lost.'
If they have patience, the Fire shall still be their home: and if they
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