Every community receives a warner, and each messenger asked no wage yet was ignored, taunted, or even killed by his people.1, 2
Noah was ridiculed by his people while warning them, and he was saved while all the disbelievers drowned in the flood.1
History should be studied so we learn from mistakes; the Quran is full of lessons, yet communities keep repeating the failures of earlier communities.1
God sends His messengers just ahead of retribution for the disbelievers, so sending a messenger to this generation marks that retribution as imminent.1, 2
The retribution for disbelievers is proportional to the greatness of the miracle, so today's disbelievers face an especially severe retribution.1, 2, 3
Nations and individuals who do not uphold what God has enjoined are destined to fail if they keep that stance.1
Lot's people practiced homosexuality, highway robbery, and all kinds of vice, and they rejected Lot because of his purity and steadfastness.1, 2, 3
Noah, Hud, Saleh, Lot, and Shu'aib are only a few of God's messengers, and their order in suras 7, 11, and 26 is the correct chronology even though other places order them differently.1, 2
Saleh was popular in Thamoud until he told them to worship God alone, and after they killed the camel God told him they had only three days left.1, 2, 3
The people of 'Ad inherited after Noah and were blessed by God, but their fine buildings made them vain and aggressive, and their punishing storm left their homes standing.1, 2, 3
The Quran says the history of destroyed communities is a lesson, but most people are not believers.1
The misery in the Middle East is no coincidence but a consequence of these communities' actions against God, who never annihilates a righteous community unjustly.1, 2, 3
Few in past generations forbade evil and deserved to be saved, while the transgressors were preoccupied with their material luxuries.1
God never wronged the destroyed past communities; they wronged their own souls, and their fate is a lesson.1, 2
God's system is unchangeable, so we must study and avoid the sins of past communities, such as idol worship, homosexuality, corruption, and cheating, or share their fate.1
Lot's people practiced homosexuality, highway robbery, and vice, rejected him for his purity, and were destroyed by being turned upside down and showered with rocks.1, 2
Midyan was made prosperous but grew greedy, cheated in business, corrupted the earth, and valued Shu'aib's tribe over God, and an earthquake on the Day of the Canopy destroyed them.1, 2
Noah's idolatrous and corrupt people rejected him and ridiculed the ark, and in the flood only a few believers were saved, while his disbelieving son drowned and his wife was a disbeliever.1, 2
Saleh was popular in Thamoud until he called them to worship God alone; they rejected the miraculous camel and slaughtered it, and an earthquake destroyed them after three days.1, 2
The people of 'Ad were blessed with beautiful buildings that made them vain and aggressive, were idolatrous, rejected Hud, and were destroyed by a storm that left their homes standing.1, 2
A community that turns unappreciative of God's blessings is made to taste hardship and insecurity, as America is now tasting His retribution for turning away from Him.1, 2
God punishes people when they are unappreciative, as He did to the community cited in the Quran.1
Aad, Thamoud, Midyan, and Noah's flood are real lessons from history, not fables, and we must learn from them or repeat their mistakes.1
Pharaoh and his tyranny teach us how not to behave, and God preserved his body as a lesson for future generations.1, 2
The ruins of destroyed nations remain standing as physical evidence and a lesson for people who understand.1, 2
Retribution on a people beyond reform comes from God, not Satan, and is a mercy, since those under forty go to heaven and the rest are spared further sins.1, 2
The warning to the people of Hud applies for all time: heed God's message and remember His blessings in order to succeed.1, 2
God saved Noah, Hud, and their followers, and destroyed those who rejected His revelations; the disbelievers of Thamud and Midyan were destroyed by a quake.1, 2, 3, 4
Sex between men instead of with women is an abomination and a transgression, and God punished Lot's people for it while saving Lot and his family except his wife.1, 2, 3
The majority of the people of Noah, Moses, and Jesus placed conditions on their worship and went astray.1
The Quran teaches that intelligence shows itself in forbidding evil, and that previous generations were destroyed because few did so while the transgressors pursued luxuries.1
Communities that rejected their messengers were annihilated, and the believers are always victorious by God's will.1, 2, 3
Arrogance is a terrible sin that destroyed people like Pharaoh and Nimrod, and the Quran teaches us to be humble toward all.1, 2, 3
Because Al-Azhar and the Muhammadan religious institutions rejected the word of God after the message was delivered, the Quran's inevitable consequence of utter destruction is imminent.1, 2
God counters the schemes of the unjust, utterly destroys them and their people, and saves those who believe and act righteously.1
Khalifa predicts that Egypt will die by 1990, taking the Arab world with her, and that Pakistan and the rest of the Muhammadan world will die around the same time.1, 2, 3
A divinely authorized retribution of this magnitude comes only and soon after God sends a messenger, according to 17:15.1
God made Qaroon a lesson so people would see that worldly appearances deceive, that they are spared only by God's grace, and that God provides and withholds as He chooses.1, 2
Per 47:38 and 54:43, the Arabs of Arabia have been dismissed from God's grace and will be annihilated like Aad, Thamoud, and Pharaoh's army.1, 2
The Quran warns of the consequences of disbelief, recounts past communities punished for rejecting God's words, and teaches that disbelievers can never succeed.1
Communities that turn unappreciative of God's blessings are punished with hardship or annihilation.1, 2
The story of Qaroon shows arrogance is never allowed in God's kingdom, and anyone who thinks he achieved success by his own cleverness is wrong.1, 2
God afflicts communities with adversity and hardship so that they may implore Him, and those who fail to implore harden their hearts and are punished.1, 2
In the histories of Noah, Hud, Saleh, Lot, and Shu'aib, God saved the messengers and those who stood by them and destroyed those who rejected His revelations.1, 2, 3