AAD
A'AD
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The Ad were a tribe which lived after Noah. The Ad were very prosperous, however, they were disobedient to God. According to the Qur'an, the Ad were destroyed by God by a violent westerly wind. Muhammad often used the Ad as an example of the fate of those who defy God.
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and Hud, al-A`raf
7:65-72; Hud 11:50-60; ash-Shu`ara' 26:123-140; al-Ahqaf
46:21
- sins of,
- boasting of,
Ha Min Sajdah 41:15-16
- chieftains of ~ disbelievers,
al-A`raf 7:66
- denied God's revelations, flouted His messengers and followed
command of their froward potentate (YA: rejected signs, disobeyed
apostles, followed trangressors),
Hud 11:59
- denied God's messengers (YA: treated prophets' missions as
false, rejects apostles),
al-Hajj 22:42; ash-Shu`ara' 26:123
- disbelieved in judgement to come,
al-Haqqah 69:4
- rejected warnings (YA: Truth),
al-Qamar 54:18
- said that Hud came with no clear proof (YA: sign),
Hud 11:53
- judgment on,
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messengers to them came with proofs (YA: signs), at-Taubah
9:70
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Satan
debarred them from the Way, al-`Ankabut
29:38
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saved by a mercy (YA: Grace) from Us, Hud
11:58
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the tribe of, at-Taubah
9:70; Ibrahim 14:9; al-Furqan 25:38; al-Fajr 89:6.
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Sad 38:12; Qaf 50:13; an-Najm 53:50.
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