as for the tribe of ad they behaved arrogantly in the land without any justification and said who is mightier than we in power? did they not see that god who created them was mightier than they in power? still they continued to deny our signs so we let loose upon them a raging wind over several inauspicious days so that we might make them taste the torment of humiliation in the life of this world and surely the torment of the hereafter will be more humiliating. they shall have none to help them.
فأما عاد فاستكبروا في الأرض بغير الحق وقالوا من أشد منا قوة أولم يروا أن الله الذي خلقهم هو أشد منهم قوة وكانوا بآياتنا يجحدون فأرسلنا عليهم ريحا صرصرا في أيام نحسات لنذيقهم عذاب الخزي في الحياة الدنيا ولعذاب الآخرة أخزى وهم لا ينصرون