Aad denied the messengers  

كَذَّبَتْ عَادٌ الْمُرْسَلِينَ  

When their brother Hud said to them, "Will you not fear Allah?  

إِذْ قَالَ لَهُمْ أَخُوهُمْ هُودٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ  

Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger.  

إِنِّي لَكُمْ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٌ  

So fear Allah and obey me.  

فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ  

And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.  

وَمَا أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَجْرٍ ۖ إِنْ أَجْرِيَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ  

Do you construct on every elevation a sign, amusing yourselves,  

أَتَبْنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ آيَةً تَعْبَثُونَ  

And take for yourselves palaces and fortresses that you might abide eternally?  

وَتَتَّخِذُونَ مَصَانِعَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَخْلُدُونَ  

And when you strike, you strike as tyrants.  

وَإِذَا بَطَشْتُمْ بَطَشْتُمْ جَبَّارِينَ  

So fear Allah and obey me.  

فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ  

And fear He who provided you with that which you know,  

وَاتَّقُوا الَّذِي أَمَدَّكُمْ بِمَا تَعْلَمُونَ  

Provided you with grazing livestock and children  

أَمَدَّكُمْ بِأَنْعَامٍ وَبَنِينَ  

And gardens and springs.  

وَجَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ  

Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a terrible day."  

إِنِّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ  

They said, "It is all the same to us whether you advise or are not of the advisors.  

قَالُوا سَوَاءٌ عَلَيْنَا أَوَعَظْتَ أَمْ لَمْ تَكُنْ مِنَ الْوَاعِظِينَ  

This is not but the custom of the former peoples,  

إِنْ هَٰذَا إِلَّا خُلُقُ الْأَوَّلِينَ  

And we are not to be punished."  

وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُعَذَّبِينَ  

And they denied him, so We destroyed them. Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.  

فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَهْلَكْنَاهُمْ ۗ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةً ۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكْثَرُهُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ  

And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.  

وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الرَّحِيمُ