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 Houd [PBUH]

He is Houd ibn Abdullah ibn Aous ibn Eram ibn Sam ibn Noah [PBUH]. He is the first prophit after saydona Noah [PBUH], he was sent to a tribe named 'Aad attributed to their father 'Aad ibn Aous ibn Eram ibn Sam ibn Noah [PBUH]. They lived in al-Ahqaf which was a sandy mountain in Yemen between Amman and Hadaramout near the salty sea. They had huge bodies. Moqatel said: "the man of them was 12 cubit [a cubit is about 1/2 meter] tall". Al-Kalby said: "the shortest one of them was 60 cubits and the tallest was 100 cubits". Allah endowed them with a long life, so that a 400 years would pass with no death between them. They were arrogant and they worshiped idols instead of Allah. When they got far with their tyranny, Allah sent His prophet Houd [PBUH] to them. Gebril [PBUH] came to him saying "Allah sends you to Aad's people. So go warn them and tell them that Allah says: [I gave you a chance for a long time, and gave you the strength that no one before you had. I made you kings on golden thornes. I made you live the longest lives]. So go Houd to them and ask them to worship Allah alone and to leave their idols". Sayyduna Houd went to them while they were gathered celebrating their feast with their kings on their golden thorns. He said to them: "[Oh, my people! Worship Allah! you have no other God but Him, you are nothing but forgers] Houd 11:50. So leave worshipping the idols, instead of Allah, which had drowned people before you". When their the king, who was called al-Galigan, saw Houd, he said to him: "Oh Houd, do you think, with all our many people, severity of strength, and our terrible power, you can beat us with your words. Do not you know that, every night and day, we have a new thousand born babies". Yet sayyduna Houd kept asking them to worship Allah for a long time, while they would not listen to him. So Allah made their wives barren, no one of their wives became pregnant. They complained to their king; al-Galigan saying: "Houd made our wives barren, and we are afraid that he might be telling the truth". Then Allah revealed to Houd to tell his people to believe in Allah or Allah will send them a Aqim wind [very strong one which does not have any good thing within it]. When they heard that from him, they stoned him. Yet he kept asking them while they were stoning him, for a long time. Houd said to Allah: "Oh my God you know that I delivered your message to the people of 'Aad but they insisted on their disbelief and far astray". Then Allah  stopped their rain for seven years, till their lands became barren, their animals died, and they lost all provision and food. So half of them died. At that time they used to, in case of drought, send some of them to the Holy House to pray there, and the rain would have fallen within the month. So they chose the best seventy men among them and sent them to Maccah. When they went there, they cruised around the Holly House;s place praying and asking for rains, Allah sent them 3 clouds white, red, and dark one. They heard someone say: choose one of them. Their Boss chose the dark one thinking that it was full of water. So Allah drove that cloud to their houses when they saw it they were cheering up thinking that it was going to rain. But it was a torture punishment upon them. Allah ordered the angel of wind to send the barren wind from under the ground blowing over them. So the people of Aad ran away to the desert astray. When the barren storm blew, it uprooted the trees and destroyed the houses over their heads. When the strong storm went on increasing, They put on their war kits and said: We would defend the storm with our strength and huge bodies. But the storm took seven men of their strongest and most huge ones and threw them up 20 cubits high, then hit them dead to the ground. After that Allah sent them burning sand with fire for 40 days. Allah kept their lives in their bodies to elongate their suffering. Their moaning could still be heard under the sand by the believers, when they pass by them.

It is narrated that when the barren wind below out of the earth, sayyduna Houd and his believer companions never left the place of their tribe, yet they were not harmed. They sat with the disbelievers side by side, however the barren wind was like a cool breathe for the believers and as a burning thunder for the disbelievers. Sayyduna Houd and those who believed with him were the only survivors.

Allah The Almighty said in Qur'an: [and to 'Aad  We sent their brother Houd who said: "Oh, my people! Worship Allah! you have no other God but Him, you are nothing but forgers"] Houd  11:50-51. Allah also said: [and remember the brothers of 'Aad  when he warned his people in al-Ahqaf, and surely there have passed away warners before  him and after him, saying "worship none but Allah, truly I fear for you the tournament of a mighty day ¤ They said "have you come to turn us away from our gods, then bring us what you threaten us with if you are of the truthful ones ¤ He said: "the knowledge is only with Allah, I convey unto you that wherewith I have been sent, but I see you are a people who are ignorant ¤ then when they saw a dense cloud coming toward their valley they said "this is  a cloud bringing us  rain" Nay it is what you asked to be hastened; a wind wherein a painful torture ¤ destroying everything by the command of its Lord, so by the morning nothing could be seen except  their dwellings, thus do We recompense the the guilty people ¤ and  indeed  We have firmly established them with that wherewith We have not established you, and We had endowed them hearing, sights, and hearts but neither their hearing, nor their sight, nor their hearts availed them nothing, since they used to deny the signs of Allah, and they were encompassed by that what they used to mock at] al-Ahqaf 46:21-26.

Imam Fakhreddin said:

[Look at the people of 'Aad mocked their guide,

they added multiples to their calumny] (61/15)

[If you want to know more about that,

and about its judgment you may ask al-Ahqaf] (61/16)

[Those whose hearts are hardened from our Dhkir

they denied our blessings oppressively] (61/17)

Allah said: [Haven't you seen what Allah had done with 'Aad ¤ Iram with the lofty pillars] al-Fajr 89:6-7. Now we know what Allah did with the people of'Aad, but what is Iram with the lofty pillars?

ISA we will tell you this story in the next issue, may Allah help us all to do all the good.

Edited by Ahmed Abbas

Translated by Ahmed Alborhany