Reminder of the end of previous nations

We gave Moses the Book, and made his brother Aaron his minister,

Then We told them: "Go to the people who have rejected Our signs." Then We annihilated them completely.

We had drowned the people of Noah when they had accused the apostles of lies, and turned them into an example for men. We have prepared a painful punishment for the wicked.

(As for) 'Ad, Thamud and the people of ar-Rass, and many generations in between them,

We administered warnings to each of them, and then destroyed them completely.

They must have surely passed by the town on which We had rained the terrible rain of ruin. How could they not have seen it? Still they do not dread the Resurrection.