The Believers - 23:43
No people can hasten or delay the term appointed for them.
Examples of destroyed societies:
The Poets/26:123
The people of Ad also denied the messengers.
The Poets/26:124
"Their brother Hud said to them, "Will you not act righteously?"
The Poets/26:125
I am a trustworthy messenger sent to you.
The Poets/26:126
Listen to Allah and follow me.
The Poets/26:127
And I do not ask of you any wage in return for this. My wage belongs only to the Lord of the Universes.
The Poets/26:128
Do you place a sign (a structure) on every hill and linger?
The Poets/26:129
Do you build strong structures so that you may abide forever?
The Poets/26:130
When you seize, you seize cruelly.
The Poets/26:131
You should listen to Allah and follow me.
The Poets/26:132
Listen to the One who gave you all that you know.
The Poets/26:133
He gave you livestock and children.
The Poets/26:134
And gardens and springs...
The Poets/26:135
I fear for you the punishment of a great day.
The Poets/26:136
"They said, "It is the same for us whether you give advice or not."
The Poets/26:137
This is the way of life followed by those before us.
The Poets/26:139
So they denied him. Finally We destroyed them. There is a lesson in this, but the majority do not believe.
The Spider/29:31
"When Our messengers came to Abraham with good news, he said, "We are about to destroy the people of this city (Sodom). For the people of that place have become unjust."
Those Who Set The Ranks/37:133
Lot was also one of the messengers.
Those Who Set The Ranks/37:134
We saved him and his family all together.
Those Who Set The Ranks/37:135
Except the old woman who remained behind.
Those Who Set The Ranks/37:136
Then We destroyed the others.
Those Who Set The Ranks/37:137
You are passing by its ruins; in the morning,
Those Who Set The Ranks/37:138
And at night. Do you not use your intellect?
The Stories/28:43
After We destroyed the first generations (the people of Noah, Hud, Salih, Lot and Shu´ayb), We gave Moses the Book as a guide and a mercy, enlightening the people, that they may take admonition.
The Criterion/25:35
We gave Moses the Book and appointed his brother Aaron as his helper.
The Criterion/25:36
"We said, "Go, you two, to that people who rejected Our signs."Then We destroyed them."
The Smoke/44:37
Are they better, or the people of Tubba´ and those before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty.
The Letter Qaf/50:12
The people of Noah, the people of Res and Thamud had disbelieved before them.
The Letter Qaf/50:13
Ad, Pharaoh and the brothers of Lot.
The Letter Qaf/50:14
The people of Ayka and the people of Tubba´. They all denied the messengers. So My threat came true.
Explained in Detail/41:15
"As for Ad, they were arrogant in the earth unjustly and said: "Who is stronger than us?"Do they not realize that Allah, Who created them, is stronger than them? They were willfully disbelieving in Our signs and miracles."
Explained in Detail/41:16
Finally, We sent upon them a strong wind on an inauspicious day to make them taste the humiliating torment in the life of this world, while the torment of the Hereafter is more humiliating and they will not be helped.
The Star/53:50
It is He who destroyed the ancient people of Ad,
The Star/53:51
He did not leave Semudu either,
The Star/53:52
And the people of Noah before him; they were very unjust and very unruly.
The Star/53:53
Those who were destroyed and submerged (Sodom and Gomorrah) were the most vulgar.
The Star/53:54
He who covered them covered them.
The Romans/30:9
Do they not travel through the earth and see how was the end of those before them? They were stronger than them, they cultivated the land and produced more than them. Their messengers had gone to them with clear proofs. It was not Allah who wronged them; they wronged themselves.
Muhammad/47:13
There were many countries more powerful than the country that brought you out, but We destroyed them and no one helped them.