After the Earth swallowed the waters of the flood that drowned those who disbelieved Noah (peace be upon him), those who believed with him and survived the architecture of the Earth, so everyone on Earth at that time was a believer and there was not a single unbeliever among them.
And years and years passed, fathers and sons died, sons of sons came, people forgot the commandment of Noah, idolatry returned and people deviated from worshiping Allah alone, and it was done with the same old trick. The descendants of Noah's people said: We do not want to forget our fathers whom Allah saved them from the flood, and they made idols for the survivors to remind them of them, This veneration developed generation after generation, then it turns into worship, and if the statues are cunningly transformed from Satan into gods with Allah.
Send a HUD (peace be upon him)
HUD was from a tribe called Aad and this tribe inhabited a place called Al-Ahqaf, which is a desert filled with sand, overlooking the sea.
As for their dwellings, they were large tents with very large and high pillars, and the people of adAd were the greatest people of their time in the strength of their bodies, height and severity, and they were giants and strong, and they carved houses out of the mountains and took them to live, and they boasted of their strength, there was no one in their time in their strength.
Despite their huge bodies, they had dark minds, they worshiped idols, defended them, fought for them, accused their prophet and mocked him. As long as they recognized that they were the most powerful people, they were supposed to see that the God who created them was the most powerful of them.
God's prophet Hud reminded them of God and that he alone was worthy of worship
Allah Almighty said in Quran "And to the people of ʿĀd [We sent] their brother Hūd. He said, ‘O my people, worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him. Will you not then fear Him? (7:65)
His people asked him: 'do you want to be the master of us by your invitation?' And what kind of pay do you want?
These bad thoughts are repeated on the tongues of unbelievers when their prophet calls them to believe in Allah alone, because their small minds do not go beyond worldly life and think only of glory, power and presidency.
Hud said: I wants nothing more from you than to wash your minds with the light of truth and told them about Allah's grace over them, how he made them successors to Noah's people, how he gave them strength in body, severity in distress, how he inhabited the land that gives good and sowing, how he sent rain on them with which he greets the Earth. And the people of Hood turned around and found that they were stronger than on Earth, and pride struck them and increased in stubbornness.
They said to Hud, ' How can you accuse our gods, whom we found our fathers worshiping?' Hood said: your fathers were wrong.
The people of Hud said: Are you saying that after we die and become dust flying in the air, we will come back to life? - Hud said: You will return on the day of resurrection, and Allah will ask each one of you what he did, they laughed after this last sentence. The claim of Hud is strange.
If a person dies, his body decomposes, and if his body decomposes, he turns into dust, and then the air blows and the dust flies.
How does this all come back to its origin! Then what is the meaning of having a resurrection day? Why do the dead rise from their dead?
Hud received all these questions with generous patience, and then he began to tell his people about the day of judgment, understanding that people's belief in the hereafter is a necessity related to the Justice of Allah, just as it is a necessity related to people's lives.
He told them what every prophet says about the day of resurrection: that the wisdom of the mastermind creator is not completed once creation begins, and then the life of the creatures on this earth ends, and that this life is a test, after which the calculation is made, so the actions of people in this world are not the same, there are those who oppress, there are those who kill, there are those who abuse and we often see the wrongdoers go unpunished, we often see the aggressors enjoy respect and authority in life.
Where do the rights of the oppressed go and where does the pain of the oppressed go? Is he buried with them in the dirt after death? Justice requires that there be a day of resurrection.
Goodness does not always triumph in life, sometimes evil organizes its armies and kills the campaign of goodness, does this crime go unpunished? a great injustice is certain if we assume that the day of judgment will not come.
Allah has forbidden injustice against himself and made it haraam among his worshippers, and it is perfectly just that there is a day of resurrection, reckoning and retribution, because the day of resurrection is the day when all issues are brought back again before the creator, and they are reviewed again and judged by Allah Almighty.
This is the first necessity of the day of judgment, and it relates to the Justice of Allah himself.
There is another necessity for the day of judgment, and it is related to the behavior of man himself that believing in the day of judgment, believing in the resurrection of bodies, standing to account by Allah, then receiving reward and punishment, and entering paradise or hell, this is something that would suspend the eyes of humans and their hearts to another world after the world of perhaps the crossroads between submission to the perceptions of the Earth, its values and balances, attachment to the supreme values of Allah, and a decent start to man, lies in faith in the day of judgment.
Hud told them all this, and they listened to him and lied to him.
They were surprised that Allah re-created the human after his transformation on Earth. The people kept asking whether this prophet is not a human being like us who eats what we eat and drinks what we drink, but perhaps because of his poverty he eats less than we eat.
Hud (peace be upon him) said to them that Allah will destroy those who disbelieve, no matter how strong they are, and the disbelievers said to him, our gods will save us. And our master Hud understood them that these gods that they worship to bring them closer to Allah, are the same ones that keep them away from Allah, he understood them that only Allah saves people and that no other force on earth can do harm or good.
The struggle between Hud (peace be upon him) and his people continued, and as the days passed, Hud's people became more arrogant, stubborn, tyrannical, and lied to their prophet and began accusing him of being crazy and saying to him, "and what we are by abandoning our gods from what you say and we will not believe to you, after that Hud (peace be upon him) has nothing left but defiance, he has nothing left but to turn to Allah alone, and he is sure that nothing Allah is powerless. With this faith in Allah and confidence in his promise, Hud (peace be upon him) addresses those who disbelieve from his people.
Our master Hud declared his innocence of them and their gods and realized that the punishment is for those who disbelieve from his people, for Allah punishes those who disbelieve, no matter how strong, rich or giant they are.
The beginning of punishment by the wind
Hud waited and his people the promise of Allah, the Earth began to dry up, the sky was no longer raining, the sun was blazing the desert sands and it looked like fire settling on people's heads, so Hud's people went to him and asked him what this drought was, Hud, and he said to them that Allah was angry with you, and if you believed, Allah would please you and send rain, increasing strength to your strength, his people mocked him and increased in stubbornness and ridicule, the drought increased and the planting died.
And one day, when a great cloud filled the sky the people of Hud were pleased, and they came out of their homes rejoicing, the weather suddenly changed from very dry and hot to very cold and severe. The wind began to blow, everything shook trees and plants, men and women and tents, the skin, flesh and bones trembled, the wind continued night after night and every hour it was getting colder and the people of Hud began to flee and hide in tents, the tents were uprooted, they hid under the covers, the gusts of wind intensified and the covers flew, the wind was tearing clothes, tearing the skin, running out of the body and destroying it, the wind hardly touched anything but killed him. The wind continued to rain on them for seven nights and eight days, the like of which the world has never seen, and then the wind stopped with the permission of its Lord.
The only thing left of the people of Hud is what remains of the dead palm, so they all perished, and HUD survived (peace be upon him) and those who believed with him.
Where the story of the prophet of Allah, Hud, is mentioned in several places, he interpreted the Holy Qur'an
And to ʿAad [We sent] their brother Hūd. He said, "O my people, worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him. You are not but inventors [of falsehood]." (11:50), O my people, I do not ask you for it any reward. My reward is only from the one who created me. Then will you not reason? (11:51), And O my people, ask forgiveness of your Lord and then repent to Him. He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in showers and increase you in strength [added] to your strength. And do not turn away, [being] criminals. (11:52), They said, "O Hūd, you have not brought us clear evidence, and we are not ones to leave our gods on your say-so, nor are we believers in you. (11:53), We only say that some of our gods have possessed you with evil." He said, "Indeed, I call Allah to witness, and witness [yourselves] that I am free from whatever you associate with Allah. (11:54), Other than Him. So plot against me all together; then do not give me respite. (11:55), Indeed, I have relied upon Allah, my Lord and your Lord. There is no creature but that He holds its forelock. Indeed, my Lord is on a path [that is] straight." (11:56), But if you turn away, then I have conveyed that with which I was sent to you. My Lord will give succession to a people other than you, and you will not harm Him at all. Indeed, my Lord is, over all things, Guardian. (11:57), And when Our command came, We saved Hūd and those who believed with him, by mercy from Us; and We saved them from a harsh punishment. (11:58), And that was ʿAad, who rejected the signs of their Lord and disobeyed His messengers and followed the order of every obstinate tyrant. (11:59), And they were therefore followed in this world with a curse and as well on the Day of Resurrection. Unquestionably, ʿAad denied their Lord; then away with ʿAad, the people of Hūd. (11:60)
Allah said in another surah:
And mention, [O Muhammad], the brother of ʿAad, when he warned his people in the [region of] al-Ahqāf – and warners had already passed on before him and after him – [saying], "Do not worship except Allah. Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a terrible day." (46:21), They said, "Have you come to delude us away from our gods? Then bring us what you promise us, if you should be of the truthful." (46:22), He said, "Knowledge [of its time] is only with Allah, and I convey to you that with which I was sent; but I see you are a people behaving ignorantly." (46:23), And when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said, "This is a cloud bringing us rain!" Rather, it is that for which you were impatient: a wind, within it a painful punishment, (46:24), Destroying everything by command of its Lord. And they became so that nothing was seen of them except their dwellings. Thus do We recompense the criminal people. (46:25), And We had certainly established them in such as We have not established you, and We made for them hearing and vision and hearts. But their hearing and vision and hearts availed them not from anything [of the punishment] when they were continually rejecting the signs of Allah; and they were enveloped by what they used to ridicule. (46:26), And We have already destroyed what surrounds you of [those] cities, and We diversified the signs to them that they might return [from disbelief]. (46:27), Then why did they not help them, those whom they had taken besides Allah as deities to approach [for] them? But they had strayed from them. And that was their falsehood and what they were inventing. (46:28)
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