The Destroyed Nations

1. Idols have been introduced to take place of the true God and man had begun to worship these idols
2. The people denied the Ayat (proofs, evidences, signs) of Allah
3. The people were given to evil
4. The people were Fasiqun (rebellious, disobedient to Allah)

1. You are just a man like ourselves

2. None follow you but the meanest amongst us and that too without thinking

3. You (believers) are liars; we see you in plain error

4. Bring on us the torment with which you threaten us

5. Thrusting of fingers in their ears and covering oneself with garments

6. Persisted in refusal and magnified themselves in pride

7. He (Noah) seeks to make himself superior to you. Had Allah willed, He surely could have sent down angels

8. Never did we hear such a thing among our fathers of old

9. He (Noah) is only a man in whom is madness; and he was insolently rebuked and threatened

10. It happened that every passing generation admonished the succeeding one not to believe in Noah and to wage war against him. The father used to teach his child and counsel him to reject his call when he reached adulthood. Thus, their natural disposition rejected believing and following the truth

1. In Islamic hadiths, different times are specified for the occurrence of the Flood of Nuh and its length. Many Muslim historians maintain that the Flood of Nuh lasted for 40 days in which water flowed from the Earth and fell from the sky consistently. Others believe that the Flood lasted for 6 months or 150 days, or 5 months, or 13 months, or 27 days. In his book, Tarikh-i-Paigambaran (History of the Prophets), Allama Majlisi cites a reliable hadith according to which Nuh and his people stayed in the ark for 7 days and nights.
2. Quran does not mention about the duration of the Flood
3. On the Biblical account, the Flood of Nuh occurred on the 7th day of the second month of 600th year of Nuh’s life. It lasted for 40 days on Earth such that the water rose up to 15 meters, and it took 150 years for the water to go down.

1. In recent times, the discovery of a large amount of evidence concerning Noah’s Flood has come to the attention of the world’s most prominent archaeologists and historians. The Flood, believed to have occurred around 3000 B.C., destroyed an entire civilization and allowed an entirely new one to be founded in its place. Many excavations have been carried out to study the flood, which was localized on and around the Mesopotamian Plains. Digs in the region have encountered traces of a flood in four main cities on the Mesopotamian Plain: Ur, Erech, Kish and Shuruppak. Excavations in these cities have shown that these cities were hit by flooding around 3000 B.C.

(for details read Notes on the Quran Vol III ‘Ayat in the Quran’ by the same writer)

2. The Ark was left as a sign of warning – it’s resting and existence on a high mountain continued to warn the later generations of the wrath of Allah for thousands of years and kept on reminding them how the people who had disobeyed Allah on this earth had met their fall, and how the believers had been rescued from it. Imam Bukhari, Ibn Abi Hatim, Abdur Razzaq and Ibn Jarir have related traditions on the authority of Qatadah saying that at the time the Muslims conquered Iraq and Al-Jazirah, this Ark still existed on Mount Judi (and according to a tradition, near the settlement of Baqirda), and the early Muslims had seen it. In the modern times also some people during their flights in the airplanes have sighted an Ark like object on a peak in this region, which is suspected to be the Ark of Noah, and on the basis of the same, expeditions have been sent from time to time to search it out.

1. Polytheism, idol-worshipping; Naming of idols and false gods

2. They invented lies about Allah

3. They denied the Ayat (Signs, proofs, evidences) of Allah

4. They followed the command of proud and obstinate leaders

5. Tyranny in the land

6. Building of high palaces on high grounds without the need to live in them

7. Construction of fine buildings for residence as if they have to live in it forever (forgetting the Hereafter)

8. They were arrogant in the land without right and were boastful of their strength among nations

1. This is the false tales and religion of the ancients
2. We are not going to be punished
3. We see in you (Hud) foolishness and we think you are a liar
4. No evidence have you (Hud) brought us and we shall not leave our gods for your mere saying so
5. Some of our gods have seized you with madness
6. If our Lord has so willed, He would surely have sent down angels to us (as a Messenger)
7. Bring upon us that with which you threaten us (the torment)
8. The chiefs of the people, who disbelieved and denied the Meeting in the Hereafter and who were given the luxuries and comforts of life, counselled their people against Prophet Hud, saying:

1. He (Hud) is no more than a human being like you (eating and drinking of what you eat)
2. If you obey a human being, you would be losers
3. Resurrection is a promise which is very far away. There is nothing but our life of this world; we live and we die and we are not to be resurrected
4. He is a man who has invented a lie against Allah

Quran states that these people had built a significant city with very huge pillars in Al-Ahqaf region. But at the time of Quran’s revelation from 1400 years there was no sign to this city, so some people have questioned this city and said it was a legendary city, but from about two decades there was a breakthrough in proving the facts mentioned by Quran about this amazing city. It was Nicholas Clapp, a noted documentary filmmaker and a lecturer on archaeology, who found this legendary city mentioned in the Quran. Being an Arabophile and a winning documentary film maker, Clapp had come across a very interesting book during his research on Arabian history. This book was Arabia Felix, written by the English researcher Bertram Thomas in 1932. The English researcher Thomas described these tribes at length and claimed that he found the traces of an ancient city founded by one of these tribes. This was the city known as “Ubar” by the Bedouins. Finally, thanks to the work of Clapp and Thomas before him - along with a helping hand from NASA researchers - the location of this legendary city, which had been subject of the stories told orally by the Bedouins, was discovered. After a short while, excavations began and remains of an old city were brought to light. This lost city was dubbed “Ubar, the Atlantis of the Sands”. “The Atlantis of the Sands, Ubar” has been recovered from under a layer of sand meters thick. It seems that the furious wind lasting for “seven nights and eight days” by the Quran’s description, accumulated tons of sand on top of the city and buried people under the earth alive. Excavations made in Ubar point to the same possibility. The French magazine, Ça M’Interesse states the following: “Ubar was buried under a sand of twelve meters thickness as a result of a storm”. Dr. Juris Zarins, a member of the research team leading the excavation, said that since the towers were alleged to be the distinctive feature of Ubar and since Iram was mentioned as having towers or pillars, this then was the strongest proof so far that the site they had unearthed was Iram, the city of Ad described in the Quran. Recent gas exploration activity in the south east region of the Arabian Desert uncovered skeletal remains of a human of phenomenal size. Scholars of Saudi Arabia believe these to be the remains of the people of Ad.

(for details read Notes on the Quran Vol III ‘Ayat in the Quran’ by the same writer)

North western Arabian peninsula; People of Thamud reportedly lived in Hijr at the coast of the Red Sea near ‘Wadi-l-Qura’ which was located on the way from Hijaz to Syria. Some historians maintain that people of Thamud lived in the heights of today's Hijaz and Jordan. The Quran has not specified the place where people of Thamud lived.

However, the community of al-Hijr mentioned in the Quran are thought to be the same people as Thamud. The other name of Thamud is ‘Ashab al-Hijr’. So, the word ‘Thamud’ is the name of a people, while the city of al-Hijr is one of those cities founded by these people. The Greek geographer Pliny’s descriptions agree with this. Pliny wrote that Domatha and Hegra were the locations where Thamud resided, and this latter makes up the city of Hijr today.

1. Polytheism
2. Transgression (Committing every kind of sin)
3. Denying the Hour of Judgement (on the Day of Resurrection)
4. Making mischief on the land
5. Feeling themselves secure in their dwellings (forgetting the Hereafter)

1. Questioning the messenger ship of Salih by the leaders of those who were arrogant, and denying it
2. Stating Salih to be bewitched; an insolent liar
3. Denying the messenger ship because of him being a human
4. Challenging Salih to bring a sign and then to bring the torment
5. How can you (Salih) forbid us from worshipping what our fathers worshipped!
6. We augur ill omen from you (Salih) and those with you (believers)
7. Nine mischievous men (from the sons of the chiefs) plotted a secret night attack to kill Salih and his household
8. If our Lord has so willed, He would surely have sent down angels
9. Is it that the Reminder (Divine Guidance) has been sent to him (Salih) alone from among us! [arrogance]
10. Killing of the She-Camel (of Allah) that was sent as an evident sign on demand of the people

1. In the Quran, Ad and Thamud are always mentioned together. Moreover, there are verses that advise Thamud to take warning from the destruction of Ad. This shows that Thamud had detailed information on Ad. As understood from this, there is a relationship between Ad and Thamud, and Ad may even have been a part of Thamud’s history and culture. Likewise, Salih (pbuh) ordered Thamud to remember the example of Ad and to take warning from them. Ad were shown the example of Nuh’s (pbuh) people who had lived before them. Just as Ad had an historical importance for Thamud, Nuh’s (pbuh) people also had an historical importance for Ad. These people were aware of each other and possibly came from the same lineage. However, the places where Ad and Thamud lived were geographically quite far from each other. There does not seem to be a relationship between these two communities; so why is it said in the verse addressed to Thamud for them to remember Ad? The answer reveals itself after a short investigation. The geographical distance between the Ad and Thamud is deceptive. Historical sources reveal that there is indeed a very strong connection between Thamud and Ad. Thamud knew Ad, because these two peoples most likely came from the same origin. Britannica Micropedia writes about these people as follows under the title of “Thamud”: ‘In ancient Arabia, tribe or group of tribes that seem to have been prominent. Although the Thamud probably originated in Southern Arabia, a large group apparently moved northward at an early date, traditionally settling on to the slopes of Jabal (Mount) Athlab. Recent archaeological work has revealed numerous Thamudic rock writings and pictures not only on Jabal Athlab, but also throughout Central Arabia’. A script graphically similar to the Smaitic alphabet (called Thamudic) has been found in southern Arabia and up throughout the Hijaz. The script was first identified in a region in north central Yemen that is known as Thamud, which is bound to the north by the Rub’al Khali, to the south by the Hadramaut and to the west by Shabwah. We know from history that Ad were a people living in South Arabia. It is very significant that some remains of Thamud were found in the region where Ad had lived, especially around the region where the Hadramites, the descendants of Ad, lived and where their capital city stood. This situation explains the Ad-Thamud relationship noted in the Quran when it says that Thamud came to replace Ad.

2. The sites of the people of Prophet Salih are referred to as Madain Salih. The sites are not only mentioned in the Quran but they continue to exist today in remote areas of Saudi-Arabia. Madain Salih (translated as cities of Salih) is located near a city called “Ula”, about 400 kilometres north of Madinah in Saudi-Arabia. Madain Salih was also referred to as “Al-Hjr”. Muslims believe that Madain Salih was once inhabited by the people of Thamud, who are mentioned in the Quran. Ibn Battuta, the great Muslim explorer and the famous traveller of the eighth century, visited this place and noted: “I have seen the buildings of Thamud carved into red mountains. Their painting looked so bright as if they had been put there only recently…and the rotten bones of the inhabitants are still present in their ruins”.

1. Practicing of lusts on men instead of women (Homosexuality)
2. Transgression beyond bounds
3. Practising of evil, wicked and filthy deeds
4. Rebellious people, disobedient to Allah
5. Openly committing every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse in their meetings while looking at each other
6. Robbing of the wayfarer
7. Practice disbelief and polytheism

(It was not only some or even a majority of people who engaged in such practice; rather it was the entire population)

1. If you cease not O Lut! We shall drive you out
2. We have no desire or need of the women of the nation
3. Drive out the believers from the town, for these want to clean and pure from sins
4. Drive out the family of Lut from the city
5. Bring Allah’s torment upon us if you are truthful

1. Time and again the Quran impressed on the Makkan unbelievers that a sign of the chastisement that had visited those wicked people could still be seen. This was observable both in the morning and night along the highway in the course of people’s commercial journeys to Syria. The relevant Quranic Verses are as follows:

The place (where the rain of stones occurred) lies along a known route (Surah 15 Al-Hijr Verse 76)

You pass by their desolate habitations in the morning and at night (Surah 37 Al-Saffat Verses 137-138)

It is now almost universally recognized that what is presently the southern part of Dead Sea became so transformed as a result of a terrible earthquake, which caused the land mass to cave in. It was in this part that the capital of Prophet Lut’s people, Sodom, was located. One can still find ruins of some submerged town in the sea. The devastated piece of land lies on the route from the Hijaz to Syria and Iraq to Egypt. The caravans that pass by this region witness traces of the devastation. In fact, some of these traces can still be observed even today. The area referred to is situated to the east and south of the Dead Sea. As to its southern part, geographers are of the view that it is characterized by a devastation for which there is no parallel on earth.

2. The statement of turning (the cities) ‘upside down’ implies that the region was totally destroyed by a violent earthquake. Accordingly, The Lake of Lut, where the destruction took place, bears ‘obvious’ evidence of such a disaster. We quote German archaeologist Werner Keller as follows: “Together with the base of this mighty fissure, which runs precisely through this area, the Vale of Siddim, including Sodom and Gomorrah, plunged one day into the abyss. Their destruction came about through a great earthquake which was probably accompanied by explosions, lightning, issue of natural gas and general conflagration”. As a matter of fact, the Lake of Lut, or the Dead Sea as it is otherwise known, is located right on the top of an active seismic region, that is, an earthquake zone. The base of the dead sea is located with a tectonic rooted downfall. This valley is located in a tension stretching between the Taberiye Lake in the north, and mid of Arabah Valley in the south.
3. ‘baked clay’ in all probability meant to be the volcanic explosion that took place on the banks of the Lake of Lut, and because of which the rocks and stones that erupted were in a “baked form”. (The same event is related in the 173rd verse of Surat Ash-Shuara). In relation to this subject, Werner Keller writes: “The subsidence released volcanic forces that had been lying dormant deep down along the whole length of the fracture. In the upper valley of the Jordan near Bashan there are still towering craters of extinct volcanoes; great stretches of lava and deep layers of basalt have been deposited on the limestone surface”. These lava and basalt layers constitute the greatest evidence that a volcanic explosion and earthquake had once taken place here.

(for details read Notes on the Qura Vol III ‘Ayat in the Quran’ by the same writer)

1. Polytheism and Shirk (associating of partners with Allah)
2. Not giving full measure (cheating) in business dealings, causing loss to others
3. Weighing with an untrue balance
4. Defrauding people by reducing their rightful property (as due)
5. Doing evil
6. Making corruption and mischief in land
7. Highway robbery

1. We shall not give up what our fathers used to worship
2. We shall do whatever we like with our property (the unjust and illegal dealings)
3. You (Shuaib) are the forbearer, right minded! (said sarcastically)
4. We do not understand much of what you say (O Shuaib)
5. We see you weak (in terms of physical strength and wealth) and you are not powerful against us
6. Were it not for your family, we would certainly have stoned you!
7. You are only one of those bewitched
8. You are but a human being like us
9. You are a liar
10. Cause a piece of heaven to fall upon us if you are truthful
11. The chiefs of the people, who were arrogant:

    1. counselled their people against Prophet Shuaib, saying: If you follow Shuaib, be sure you would be losers

    2. threatened Shuaib saying: we shall certainly drive you out and those who have believed with you from our town, unless all of you should return to our religion

1. Disbelief in Allah (and in His Oneness)
2. Joining partners in worship with Allah
3. Denying the Ayat (proofs, evidences, signs) of Allah
4. They were Zalimun (polytheists and wrong doers)

5. Firaun was an arrogant tyrant; and a Musrif (those who give up the truth and follow the evil, and commit all kinds of great sins); and he transgressed (all bounds in disbelief, sin and oppression); he exalted himself in the land and made its people sects, oppressing a group (i.e., Children of Israel) among them

6. Firaun, Haman and his hosts were arrogant in the land, without right; and made therein much mischief; and were sinners
7. They thought that they would never return to Allah – they were disbelievers in the Hereafter and Resurrection

1. The chiefs of the people of Firaun called Musa (and Harun) well-versed sorcerer; who wanted to get them out of their land, or have greatness therein for themselves
2. Firaun and his hosts called the Ayat brought forth by Musa as clear magic, manifest magic, invented magic; and laughed at them
3. Whatever Ayat you (Musa) may bring to us, we shall never believe in you
4. Have you come to us to turn us away from the faith we found our fathers following! Never did we hear this among our fathers of old
5. Firaun told Musa that he was bewitched, a madman; and resolved to turn the believers out of Egypt
6. The chiefs of Firaun advised him that these two are magicians and their object is to drive you out from the land with magic and overcome your chiefs and nobles. Firaun challenged Musa that he can produce a magic similar to Musa’s ‘magic’. The chiefs further beseeched Firaun that will he leave Musa to cause mischief in the land at which Firaun plotted to kill the sons (males) of those who believe with him (Musa) and let their women live
7. Shall we believe in two men like ourselves, when their people (the Children of Israel) are in subordination with humility to us!
8. Firaun exhorted Musa about bringing him up amongst himself since he was a child; and reminded him about the crime he committed in the land (the crime of killing a man)
9. Firaun counselled his subjects thus:

(a) your Messenger who has been sent to you is a madman!

(b) if you choose an ilah (god) other than me, I will certainly put you among the prisoners

(c) I show you only that which I see as correct and I guide you to the path of right policy

(d) Is not mine the dominion of Egypt, and these rivers flowing underneath me

(e) Am I not better than Musa who is despicable and can scarcely express himself

(f) why then are not golden bracelets bestowed on him, or angels sent along with him

(g) I am your lord, most high

10. Firaun boasted to his chiefs that he was their only god; and asked Haman to construct a lofty tower so that he may see the Lord of Musa (in the heaven); he also discussed that he may kill Musa while he calls upon his Lord (to see if he is helped)
11. Firaun feared that Musa may change their traditions and cause mischief in the land. He turned his back to the truth and strove against Allah
12. Firaun accused Musa of being a Liar; So, did Haman and Qarun (Korah).
13. Firaun befooled and misled his people and they obeyed him; Most of the people followed the command of Firaun, despite the Ayat shown by Musa; whenever they were faced with the torment, they would beseech Musa to invoke his Lord for them (expressing their intent to guide themselves to the truth), but when the torment was removed, they broke their covenant; thus, the disbelievers persisted in denying
14. They behaved insolently and were a people self-exalting; they denied the Ayat wrongfully and arrogantly, though their own selves were convinced thereof.

1. Allah says in the Quran (about Firaun): “We shall deliver your (dead) body (out from the sea) that you may be a sign to those who come after you!”. It was a Professor Loret who, in 1898, was the first person to find the mummified remains of the Pharaoh who lived in the days of Musa. The Pharaoh was identified as Merneptah, who was the son of Rameses II. For 3,000 years, the corpse had remained wrapped in a sheet in the Tomb of the Necropolis at Thebes where Loret had found it and subjected it to proper scientific examination. In 1912 he published a book, entitled ‘The Royal Mummies.’ His research has proved that the mummy discovered by Loret was indeed that of the Pharaoh who knew Musa, resisted his pleas, pursued him as he took flight, lost his life in the process. His earthly remains were saved by the will of God from destruction to become a sign to man, as is written in the Quran. In 1975, Dr. Bucaille, made a detailed examination of the Pharaoh’s mummy which by then had been taken to Cairo. His findings led him to write in astonishment and acclaim: “Those who seek among modern data for proof of the Holy Scriptures will find a magnificent illustration of the verses of the Quran dealing with the Pharaoh’s body by visiting the Royal Mummies Room of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo”.

2. Haman is a character whose name is mentioned in the Quran, along with the Pharaoh. He is recorded in six different places of the Quran as one of the closest men to the Pharaoh. Surprisingly the name of Haman is never mentioned in those sections of the Torah pertaining to the life of Moses. However, the mention of the word Haman can be found in the last chapters of the Old Testament as the helper of a Babylonian king who inflicted many cruelties on the Israelites approximately 1,100 years after Moses. Some non-Muslims, who claim that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) wrote the Quran by copying from the Torah and the Bible, also assert that during the process, he transferred some of the subjects related in these books into the Quran incorrectly. The absurdity of these claims was demonstrated only after the Egyptian hieroglyphic alphabet had been deciphered, approximately 200 years ago, and the name “Haman” discovered in the ancient scripts. Before these discoveries, the writings and inscriptions of ancient Egypt could not be understood. The language of ancient Egypt was hieroglyphic, which survived through the ages. However, with the spread of Christianity and other cultural influences in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, Egypt forsook its ancient beliefs as well as hieroglyphic writing. The last known example of the use of hieroglyphic writing was an inscription dated 394 AD. Then that language was forgotten, leaving nobody who could read and understand it. And that was the situation until some 200 years ago. The mystery of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics was solved in 1799 by the discovery of a tablet called the “Rosetta Stone” dating back to 196 B.C. The importance of this inscription was that it was written in three different forms of writing: Hieroglyphics, demotic (a simplified form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing) and Greek. With the help of the Greek script, the ancient Egyptian writings were decoded. The translation of the inscription was completed by a Frenchman named Jean-Françoise Champollion. Hence a forgotten language and the events related in it were brought to light. In this way, a great deal of knowledge about the civilization, religion and social life of ancient Egypt became available. Through the decoding of hieroglyph, an important piece of knowledge was revealed: the name “Haman” was indeed mentioned in Egyptian inscriptions. This name was referred to in a monument in the Hof Museum in Vienna. In the dictionary of People in the New Kingdom, that was prepared based on the entire collection of inscriptions, Haman is said to be “the head of stone quarry workers”.

(For more details read Notes on the Quran Vol III ‘Ayat in the Quran’ by the same author)

1. The worship of Allah was abandoned and replaced with the worship of the sun.

2. They became bored of Allah’s favours, met blessings with disobedience; they wished to struggle like everyone else did. They wished to prepare luggage and experience the fatigue of life. Things were just too comfortable.

3. They refused to be thankful

1. They turned away from worshipping Allah alone and from giving thanks to Him for the blessings that He had bestowed upon them, and they started to worship the sun instead of Allah
2. They supplicated to Allah to make the distances of their journey longer (making it difficult)

1. The capital city, Marib, was one of the most developed cities of the time. The Greek writer Pliny, who had visited the region and greatly praised it, also mentioned how green this region was. The height of the dam in Marib was sixteen metres, its width was sixty metres and its length was 620 metres. According to the calculations, the total area that could be irrigated by the dam was 9,600 hectares, of which 5,300 hectares belonged to the southern plain, while the remaining part belonged to the northern plain. These two plains were referred to as "Marib and two plains" in the Sabaean inscriptions. The expression in the Quran, two gardens on the right hand and on the left, refers to the imposing gardens and vineyards in these two valleys. Thanks to this dam and its irrigation systems, the region became famous as the best irrigated and most fruitful area of Yemen. The Frenchman J. Holevy and the Austrian Glaser proved from written documents that the Marib dam has existed since ancient times. In documents written in the Himer dialect, it is related that this dam rendered the territory very productive.
2. The Christian archaeologist Werner Keller, writer of "And Yet The Bible is Right" (Und Die Bible Hat Doch Recht), accepted that the flood of Arim occurred according to the description of the Quran and wrote that the existence of such a dam and the destruction of the whole country by its collapse proves that the example given in the Quran about the people of the garden was indeed realized.

‘Sabbath’, which means Saturday, was declared for the Israelites as the holy day of the week. God declared the Sabbath as a sign of the perpetual covenant between God and Israel. (Exodus 31: 12-16.) The Israelites were required to strictly keep the Sabbath which meant that they may not engage in any worldly activity; they may not cook, nor make their slaves or cattle serve them. Those who violated these rules were to be put to death. The Israelites, however, publicly violated these rules. In the days of the Prophet Jeremiah (between 628 and 586 B.C.), the Israelites carried their merchandise through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day itself. Jeremiah, therefore, warned them that if they persisted in their flagrant violation of the Law, Jerusalem would be set on fire. (Jeremiah 17: 21-7.) The same complaint is voiced in the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel (595-536 B.C.) who referred to their violation of the Sabbath rules as their major sin. (Ezekiel 20: 12-24).

This being a fishing community, they were not supposed to do any fishing on Saturdays. But, in order to try them, Allah arranged it in such a way that the fish would swarm the surface of the water on the day they observed the Sabbath, i.e., beginning Friday evening, when the Israeli moon calendar day started, all through the next day. But by Sunday, they disappeared; which of course would mean going out into the sea on fishing boats to catch them. But there they were, dancing before their eyes, in abundance, inviting them to catch, right at the shore, coming in with the tides that usually gathered strength by the evening. When the phenomenon repeated for several weeks, they thought they’d play with the rules. They’d build barges, or cut canals for the fish to enter, with sluices that they closed to prevent their return to sea, or trap them in holes along with water, forced in by the tidal waves, where the fish would stay until they went on Sundays to cheaply net them out.

1. Idolatry and Fire-worship
2. They were a criminal people (given to crimes and sins)

1. They had a King named Anticus bin Anticus bin Anticus (3rd generation, the King's name was the same) who worshiped idols; the people were thus idol-worshippers
2. They were a people Musrifun (transgressing all bounds by committing all kinds of great sins, and by disobeying Allah)

1. Antakya race slammed the Messenger of Allah by associating their difficulties like natural disasters, loss of crops, etc.  due to the presence of the Prophets which coincides with the calamity that they face.
2. You (the Prophets) are only human beings like ourselves
3. Allah has revealed nothing, you are only telling lies
4. We see an evil omen from you; if you cease not, we will surely stone you and a painful torment will touch you from us.
5. They killed the believer among them who gave them good counsel (referred to in above)