now as for ad they walked arrogantly on earth against all right and saying who could have a power greater than ours? why were they then not aware that god who created them had a power greater than theirs? but they went on rejecting our messages and thereupon we let loose upon them a storm wind raging through days of misfortune so as to give them in the life of this world a foretaste of suffering through humiliation but suffering in the life to come will be far more humiliating and they will have none to succour 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