as for ad they waxed proud in the land without justification and said who is greater than we in strength? did they not see that allah who created them is greater in strength than they? they continued to deny our signs whereupon we sent upon them a fierce wind on inauspicious days that we might make them taste a degrading chastisement in the life of this world. and surely the chastisement of the hereafter is even more degrading. there will be none to help them there.
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