\nThe\npeople of ‘Ad lived many years in the windswept hills of an area\nbetween Yemen and Oman. They were physically well built and renowned\nfor their craftsmanship especially in the construction of tall\nbuildings with lofty towers. They were outstanding among all the\nnations in power and wealth, which, unfortunately, made them arrogant\nand boastful. Their political power was held in the hand of unjust\nrulers, against whom no one dared to raise a voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThey\nwere not ignorant of the existence of Allah, nor did they refuse to\nworship Him. What they did refuse was to worship Allah alone. They\nworshipped other gods, also, including idols. This is one sin Allah\ndoes not forgive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAllah\nwanted to guide and discipline these people so He sent a prophet from\namong them. This prophet was Hud (PBUH), a noble man who handled this\ntask with great resoluteness and tolerance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIbn\nJarir reported that he was Hud Ibn Shalikh, Ibn Arfakhshand, Ibn Sam,\nIbn Noah (PBUH). He also reported that Prophet Hud (PBUH) was from a\ntribe called Ad Ibn Us Ibn Sam Ibn Noah, who were Arabs living in Al\nAhqaf in Yemen between Oman and Hadramaut, on a land called Ashar\nstretching out into the sea. The name of their valley was Mughiith<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nSome\ntraditions claimed that Hud (PBUH) was the first person who spoke\nArabic while others claimed that Noah (PBUH) was the first. It was\nalso said that Adam was the first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nHud\n(PBUH) condemned idol worship and admonished his people. “MY\npeople, what is the benefit of these stones that you carve with your\nown hands and worship? In reality it is an insult to the intellect.\nThere is only One Deity worthy of worship and that is Allah. Worship\nof Him and Him alone, is compulsory on you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nHe\ncreated you, He provides for you and He is the One Who will cause you\nto die. He gave you wonderful physiques and blessed you in many ways.\nSo believe in Him and do not be blind to His favors, or the same fate\nthat destroyed Noah’s people will overtake you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWith\nsuch reasoning Hud hoped to instill faith in them, but they refused\nto accept his message. His people asked him: “Do you desire to\nbe our master with your call? What payment do you want?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nHud\ntried to make them understand that he would receive his payment\n(reward) from Allah; he did not demand anything from them except that\nthey let the light of truth touch their minds and hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAllah\nthe Almighty states:\nAnd to Ad people We sent their brother Hud. He said: “O my\npeople! Worship Allah! You have no other Ilah (god) but Him;\nCertainly, you do nothing but invent (lies)! O my people I ask of you\nno reward for it (the Message). My reward is only from Him Who\ncreated me. Will you not then understand? And O my people! Ask\nforgiveness of your Lord and then repent to Him, He will send you\n(from the sky) abundant rain, and add strength to your strength, so\ndo not turn away as Mujrimeen (criminals, disbeliveers in the Oneness\nof Allah).”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThey\nsaid: “O Hud! No evidence have you brought us and we shall not\nleave our gods for your mere saying! We are not believers in you. All\nthat we say is that some of our gods (false deities) have seized you\nwith evil (madness).”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHE\nsaid: “I call Allah to witness and bear you witness that I am\nfree from that which you ascribe as partners in worship, and with Him\n(Allah). SO plot against me, all of you, and give me no respite. I\nput my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord! There is not a moving\n(living) creature but HE has grasp of its forelock. Verily, my Lord\nis on the Straight Path (the truth). SO if you turn away, still I\nhave conveyed the Message with which I was sent to you. My Lord will\nmake another people succeed you, and you will not harm Him in the\nleast. Surely, my Lord is Guardian over all things.”<\/em>\n(Ch 11:50-57 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHud\ntried to speak to them and to explain about Allah’s blessings: how\nAllah the Almighty had made them Noah’s successors, how He had given\nthem strength and power, and how HE sent them rain to revive the\nsoil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHud’s\npeople looked about them and found they were the strongest on earth,\nso they become prouder and more obstinate. Thus they argued a lot\nwith Hud. They asked “O Hud! Do you say that later we die and\nturn into dust, we will be resurrected?” He replied, “Yes,\nyou will come back on the Day of Judgment and each of you will be\nasked about what you did.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nA\npeal of laughter was heard after the last statement. “How\nstrange Hud’s claims are!” The disbeliveers muttered among\nthemselves. They believed that when man dies his body decays and\nturns into dust, which is swept away by the wind. How could that\nreturn to its original state? Then what is the significance of the\nDay of Judgment? Why does the dead return to life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAll\nthese questions were patiently received by Hud. He then addressed his\npeople concerning the Day of Judgment. he explained that belief in\nthe Day of Judgment is essential to Allah’s justice, teaching them\nthe same thing that every prophet taught about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHud\nexplained that justice demands that there be a Day of Judgment\nbecause good is not always victorious in life. Sometimes evil\noverpowers good. Will such crimes go unpunished? If we suppose there\nis no Day of Judgment, then a great injustice will have prevailed,\nbut Allah has forbidden injustice to be incurred by Himself or His\nsubjects. Therefore, the existence of the Day of Judgment, a day of\naccounting for our deeds and being rewarded or punished for them,\nreveals the extend of Allah’s justice. Hud spoke to them about all of\nthese things. They listened but disbelieved him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAllah\nrecounts his people’s attitude towards the Day of Judgment: “The\nchiefs of his people, whom disbelieved and denied the meeting in the\nHereafter, and to who We had given the luxuries and comforts of this\nlife, said: “He is no more than a human being like you, he eats\nof that which you eat, and drinks of what you drink. If you were to\nobey a human being like yourselves then verily! You indeed would be\nlosers. Does he promise you that when you have died and have become\ndust and bones, you shall come out alive (resurrected)? Far, very\nfar, is that which you are promised. There is nothing but our life of\nthis world! We die and we live! We are not going to be resurrected!\nHe is only a man who has invented a lie against Allah, but we are not\ngoing to believe in him.”<\/em>\n(Ch 23:33-38 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nthe\nchiefs of Hud’s people asked: “IS it not strange that Allah’s\nchooses one of us to reveal His message to?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHud\nreplied: “What is strange in that? Allah wants to guide you to\nthe right way of life, so HE sent me to warn you. Noah’s flood and\nhis story are not far away from you, so do not forget what happened.\nAll the disbeliveers were destroyed, no matter how strong they were.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n“Who\nis going to destroy us Hud?” the chiefs asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n“Allah.”\nreplied Hud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\ndisbeliveers among his people answered: “We will be saved by our\ngods.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHud\nclarified to them that the gods they worshipped would be the reason\nfor their destruction, that it is Allah alone Who saves people, and\nthat no other power on earth can benefit or harm anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\nconflict between Hud and his people continued. The years passed, and\nthey became prouder and more obstinate, and more tyrannical and more\ndefiant of their prophet’s message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nFurthermore,\nthey started to accuse Hud (PBUH) of being a crazy lunatic. One day\nthey told him: “We now understand the secret of your madness you\ninsulted our gods and they harmed you; that is why you have become\ninsane.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAlmighty\nAllah repeated their words in the Quran:\n“O my Hud! No evidence have you brought us, and we shall not\nleave our gods for your mere saying! And we are not believers in you.\nAll that we say is that some of our gods (false deities) have seized\nyou with evil (madness).” <\/em>(Ch\n11:53-54 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHud\nhad to return their challenge. He had no other way but to turn to\nAllah alone, no other alternative but to give them a threatening\nultimatum. he declared to them:\n“I call Allah to witness and bear you witness that I am free\nfrom that which you ascribe as pin worship with Him (Allah). SO plot\nagainst me, all of you and give me no respite. I put my trust in\nAllah, my Lord your Lord! There is not a moving (living) creature but\nHe has grasp of its forelock. Verily, my Lord is on the Straight Path\n(the truth). So if you turn away, still I have conveyed the message\nwith which it was sent to you. My Lord will make another people\nsucceed you, and you will not harm Him.” <\/em>(Ch\n11:54-57 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThus\nHud renounced them and their gods and affirmed his dependence on\nAllah Who had created him. Hud realized that punishment would be\nincurred on the disbeliveers among his people. It is one of the laws\nof life. Allah punishes the disbeliveers, no matter how rich,\ntyrannical or great they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHud\nand his people waited for Allah’s promise. A drought spread\nthroughout the land, for the sky no longer sent its rain. the sun\nscorched the desert sands, looking like a disk of fire which settled\non people’s heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHud’s\npeople hastened to him asking: “What is that drought Hud?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHud\nanswered: “Allah is angry with you. If you believe in Him, He\nwill accept you and the rain will fall and you will become stronger\nthan you are.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThey\nmocked him and became more obstinate, sarcastic and preserve in their\nunbelief. The drought increased, the trees turned yellow, and plants\ndied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nA\nday came when they found the sky full of clouds. Hud’s people were\nglad as they came out of their tents crying: “A cloud, which\nwill give us rain!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe\nweather changed suddenly from burning dry and hot to stinging cold\nwith wind that shook everything; trees, plants, tents, men and women.\nThe wind increased day after day and night after night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nHud’s\npeople started to flee. They ran to their tents to hide but the gale\nbecame stronger, ripping their tents from their stakes. They hid\nunder cloth covers but the gale became stronger and still and tore\naway the covers. It slashed clothing and skin. It penetrated the\napertures of the body and destroyed it. It hardly touched anything\nbefore it was destroyed or killed, its core sucked out to decompose\nand rot. The storm raged for 8 days and 7 nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAlmighty\nAllah recounts:\nThen when they saw it as a dense cloud coming towards their valleys,\nthey said: “This is a cloud bringing us rain!” Nay but it\nis that torment which you were asking to be hastened! a wind wherein\nis a painful torment! Destroying everything by the command of its\nLord! <\/em>(Ch\n46:24-25 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nAllah\nthe Exalted described it thus:\nAnd as for Ad, they were destroyed for a firious violent wind which\nAllah imposed on them for 7 nights and 8 days in succession, so that\nyou could see men lying overthrown (destroyed) as if they were hollow\ntrunks of palm trees!<\/em>\n(Ch 69:6-7 Quran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThat\nviolent gale did not stop until the entire region was reduced to\nruins and its wicked people destroyed, swallowed by the sands of the\ndesert. Only Hud and his followers remained unharmed. They migrated\nto Hadramaut and lived there in peace, worshipping Allah, their true\nLord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The people of ‘Ad lived many years in the windswept hills of an area between Yemen and Oman. They were physically well built and renowned for their craftsmanship especially in the construction of tall buildings with lofty towers. 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