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what thou threatenest us with, if so be that thou tellest the truth!"
007.071 He said: "Punishment and wrath have already come upon you from your Lord: dispute ye with me over names
which ye have devised - ye and your fathers,- without authority from God? then wait: I am amongst you, also waiting."
007.072 We saved him and those who adhered to him. By Our mercy, and We cut off the roots of those who rejected
Our signs and did not believe.
007.073 To the Thamud people (We sent) Salih, one of their own brethren: He said: "O my people! worship God: ye
have no other god but Him. Now hath come unto you a clear (Sign) from your Lord! This she-camel of God is a Sign
unto you: So leave her to graze in God's earth, and let her come to no harm, or ye shall be seized with a grievous
punishment.
007.074 "And remember how He made you inheritors after the 'Ad people and gave you habitations in the land: ye build
for yourselves palaces and castles in (open) plains, and care out homes in the mountains; so bring to remembrance the
benefits (ye have received) from God, and refrain from evil and mischief on the earth."
007.075 The leaders of the arrogant party among his people said to those who were reckoned powerless - those among
them who believed: "know ye indeed that Salih is an apostle from his Lord?" They said: "We do indeed believe in the
revelation which hath been sent through him."
007.076 The Arrogant party said: "For our part, we reject what ye believe in."
007.077 Then they ham-strung the she-camel, and insolently defied the order of their Lord, saying: "O Salih! bring
about thy threats, if thou art an apostle (of God)!"
007.078 So the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes in the morning!
007.079 So Salih left them, saying: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the message for which I was sent by my
Lord: I gave you good counsel, but ye love not good counsellors!"
007.080 We also (sent) Lut: He said to his people: "Do ye commit lewdness such as no people in creation (ever)
committed before you?
007.081 "For ye practise your lusts on men in preference to women : ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond
bounds."
007.082 And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want
to be clean and pure!"
007.083 But we saved him and his family, except his wife: she was of those who legged behind.
007.084 And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone): Then see what was the end of those who indulged in
sin and crime!
007.085 To the Madyan people We sent Shu'aib, one of their own brethren: he said: "O my people! worship God; Ye
have no other god but Him. Now hath come unto you a clear (Sign) from your Lord! Give just measure and weight, nor
withhold from the people the things that are their due; and do no mischief on the earth after it has been set in order:
that will be best for you, if ye have Faith.
007.086 "And squat not on every road, breathing threats, hindering from the path of God those who believe in Him, and
seeking in it something crooked; But remember how ye were little, and He gave you increase. And hold in your mind's
eye what was the end of those who did mischief.
007.087 "And if there is a party among you who believes in the message with which I have been sent, and a party which
does not believe, hold yourselves in patience until God doth decide between us: for He is the best to decide.
007.088 The leaders, the arrogant party among his people, said: "O Shu'aib! we shall certainly drive thee out of our city
- (thee) and those who believe with thee; or else ye (thou and they) shall have to return to our ways and religion." He
said: "What! even though we do detest (them)?
007.089 "We should indeed invent a lie against God, if we returned to your ways after God hath rescued us therefrom;
nor could we by any manner of means return thereto unless it be as in the will and plan of God, Our Lord. Our Lord
can reach out to the utmost recesses of things by His knowledge. In the God is our trust. our Lord! decide Thou
between us and our people in truth, for Thou art the best to decide."
007.090 The leaders, the unbelievers among his people, said: "If ye follow Shu'aib, be sure then ye are ruined!"
007.091 But the earthquake took them unawares, and they lay prostrate in their homes before the morning!
007.092 The men who reject Shu'aib became as if they had never been in the homes where they had flourished: the men