''This is a brief summary of Hud's narrative, with emphasis on two particular verses'': The people of ʿĀd were extremely powerful and wealthy and they built countless buildings and monuments to show their power. However, the ʿĀd people's wealth ultimately proved to be their source of pride, as they became arrogant and forsook
God and began to
adopt idols for worship, including three named
Samd,
Samud and
Hara.
Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar, a
Salafi scholar of Tafsir, quoted this literation in his book, while his brother, Muhammad Sulaiman Al Ashqar, professor of
Islamic University of Madinah, also implied his support of this narrative about Hud's miracle, in his own tafsir,
Zubdat at Tafsir Min Fath al Qadir. The miracle is further highlighted by Firanda Andirja, lecturer of
Al-Masjid al-Haram.
Calamity upon ʿĀd After Hud has been left alone by the people of ʿĀd for a long time. The majority of them, however, refused to pay any notice to his teachings and they kept ignoring and mocking all he said. As their aggression, arrogance and idolatry deepened, God, after plenty of warning, sent a
thunderous storm to finish the wicked people of ʿĀd once and for all. The destruction of the ʿĀd is described in the Quran:
Wahbah al-Zuhayli,
Salih bin Abdullah al Humaid, Imam of the
Masjid al-Haram, along with the officials of the
Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah, and Guidance also agreed the verse were speaking about the punishment from God towards ʿĀd peoples. Meanwhile, another Quran verse that describes further the characteristics of winds that bear calamity was in surat
adh-Dhariyat: "And in ˹the story of˺ ’Âd ˹was another lesson,˺ when We sent against them the devastating wind." Exegesis experts translate
Ar-Rīḥ al-ʿAqīm () literally as "fruitless wind" or "barren wind", a wind that does not bring benefit or any positive reaction to any biological existences. == In the hadith ==