The Cattle - 6:42 And We sent messengers to the people before you, and We tested them with hardship and distress so that they might supplicate.
The Heights/7:94 Whenever We sent a messenger to a land, We afflicted its people with hardship and distress so that they might beg.
The Heights/7:95 "Then We replaced evil with good. But they lost their understanding: They said: "Distress and prosperity touched our ancestors also". So We seized them suddenly without their knowledge."
The Heights/7:130 And We sentenced the party of Pharaoh to years of drought and famine so that they might be admonished.
The Heights/7:131 "When good came to them, they used to say: "We deserved it", and when evil touched them, they used to accuse Moses and his companions of bad luck. Indeed, their bad luck is decided by Allah. But most of them do not know."
The Heights/7:132 "They said: "No matter how many miracles (signs) you bring to bewitch us, we will not believe you"."
The Heights/7:133 We sent upon them signs such as the flood, locusts, vermin, frogs and blood, but they continued to be arrogant and became a guilty people.
The Heights/7:134 "Whenever a calamity befell them, they said, "O Moses, invoke your Lord for His promise to you. If you deliver us from this calamity, we will believe in you and send the Children of Israel with you."
The Heights/7:135 And when He delivered them from the calamities for a time, they went back on their promise.

The Repentance/9:126 Do they not see that they are tested with calamities once or twice every year, yet they neither repent nor take admonition?

Prophet Jonah/10:100 No one can believe without Allah´s permission, and He condemns to disgrace those who do not use their reason.

The Thunder/13:11 (For each of them) there are those who watch him from in front of him and from behind him. They guard him by Allah´s command. Unless a community changes itself, Allah does not change their condition. And when Allah wills evil for a people, no power can stop it, nor do they have any protector except Him.

The Believers/23:76 Even though We punished them, they did not submit to their Lord, nor did they supplicate.

The Romans/30:41 Calamities spread on land and sea because of what the people have done with their hands. So He makes them taste some of what they used to do in order that they may turn back (from evil).