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homes, waited for the storm to end. But there was no shelter that day from God’s punishment. The storm remained for eight days and seven nights, burying everything under huge heaps of sand. No trace of the Aad remained! (peace be on him) and his small group of followers were saved by the special mercy of Allah and they went on to preach His message. Somewhere deep in the deserts of Arabia waiting to be found lie the remains of those once great cities, a sign for mankind. Wa Amma Aadun Fa Uhliku bireehin Sarsarin Aatiyatin - Sakhkharahaa Alaihim Sab’a Layaalin wa Samaaniyata Ayyaamin Husuman -Fa Taral- Qauma feehaa sar’aa ka Annahum a’ajaazoo Nakhlin Khaawiyyah. ‘And as for the Aad, they were destroyed by a fierce roaring wind, which He caused to blow against them for seven nights and eight days consecutively, so that thou mightest have seen the people therein lying prostate, as though they were trunks of palm-trees fallen down’ (Al- Haqqah verses 7-8) 16