Hazrat Hud — Page 14

What the Aad meant by this was that they had heard tales of prophets that had come before (peace be on him) who had preached a message from God, and who gave warnings of terrible punishment, but the punishment never came. They dismissed all that he said as ‘stories of the ancients’. How foolish the people of Aad were, for the day of the punishment came. One bright sunny day, as they continued with their daily business, the people of Aad noticed a dark cloud approaching way in the distance. They were delighted 14