The early generations descended from Noah sons moved away from Ark's location
in Southern Turkey, and started to
settle around the globe, but the main group who were mentioned in Quran and
lived after Noah times, were people of A'd. They lived in southern part of Arabia
where it was a wonderful place full of gardens, lakes and rivers.
But those people diverted again from worshiping
God, and they were proud and arrogant because of their wealth and power that
ALLAH gave to them:
فَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَاسْتَكْبَرُوا فِي الأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ
وَقَالُوا مَنْ أَشَدُّ مِنَّا قُوَّةً أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّ اللَّهَ الَّذِي
خَلَقَهُمْ هُوَ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةً وَكَانُوا بِآيَاتِنَا يَجْحَدُونَ
As for 'Ad, they were arrogant in
the land without right, and they said: "Who is
mightier than us in strength?" See they not that
Allâh, Who created them was mightier in strength than them. And they used to
deny Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, revelations)! (24:15)
Not only that, but it seems that their cities
and lands were huge and wide too:
أَوَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا فِي الأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ
الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ كَانُوا أَشَدَّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةً وَأَثَارُوا الأَرْضَ وَعَمَرُوهَا
أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا عَمَرُوهَا وَجَاءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ فَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ
لِيَظْلِمَهُمْ وَلَكِن كَانُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ
Do they not travel in the land,
and see what was the end of those before them? They were superior to them in
strength, and they tilled the earth and
populated it in greater numbers than these (pagans) have
done, and there came to them their Messengers with clear proofs. Surely, Allâh
wronged them not, but they used to wrong themselves. (30:9)
Let's review the following description of A'd story from Quran
verses..
