*Hazrat Hud (Peace be upon him) – Part 2*


Hazrat Hud (Peace be upon him) asked Allah Ta‘ala for help against his people, because the nation had refused to accept any of his advice and had denied him. So he pleaded to Allah Ta‘ala: “My Lord, they have denied me, so help me.” Allah Ta‘ala said: “In a little while they will be regretful.” Then a cloud came. In accordance with the threat, a mighty sound seized them, and We made them like rubbish. So a curse is upon the wrongdoing people.


Allah Ta‘ala said further about them: They said, “Have you come to us to turn us away from our gods? Then bring upon us what you threaten us with, if you are truthful.” He said, “Knowledge of it is only with Allah, and I convey to you that with which I was sent, but I see that you are a people behaving ignorantly.”


Then when they saw the punishment — a cloud coming toward their nation — they said, “This is a cloud bringing us rain.” No, rather it was the punishment you were seeking to hasten — a wind in which is a painful punishment, destroying everything by the command of its Lord. Then they became such that nothing was to be seen except their dwellings. Thus do We recompense the criminal people.


Then We saved Hud and those who were with him, and We cut off the roots of those who denied Our signs, and they were not believers. The detailed account has already passed with reference to Surah Al-Ahqaf. It mentions the onset of the punishment: first, rain was withheld from them and they fell into drought. They prayed for rain. After that they saw a cloud in the sky, and they thought it was a rain cloud of mercy, though it was a cloud of punishment.


Allah kept it blowing upon them for seven nights and seven days continuously — that is, a full week of violent wind blew without break. According to one report, this storm of punishment occurred on a Friday. And according to one report, people were seen lying fallen in it like hollow trunks of palm trees. We sent upon them a furious wind on a day of continuous misfortune. It uprooted the people as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees. So We sent upon them a raging wind during days of misfortune.


_Source: Al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya, Imam Ibn Kathir_

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