(25:38) And [We destroyed] `Aad and Thamud and the companions of the well and many generations between them. (25:39) And for each We presented examples [as warnings], and each We destroyed with [total] destruction. (25:40) And they have already come upon the town which was showered with a rain of evil. So have they not seen it? But they are not expecting resurrection. (25:41) And when they see you, [O Muhammad], they take you not except in ridicule, [saying], "Is this the one whom Allah has sent as a messenger? (25:42) He almost would have misled us from our gods had we not been steadfast in [worship of] them." But they are going to know, when they see the punishment, who is farthest astray in [his] way. (25:43) Have you seen the one who takes as his god his own desire? Then would you be responsible for him? (25:44) Or do you think that most of them hear or reason? They are not except like livestock. Rather, they are [even] more astray in [their] way.
