The Heights - 7:72 We saved him and those with him as a Mercy from Us, and We cut off those who denied Our Verses and disbelieved.
How were the people of AD destroyed?
The Sure Truth/69:6 And Ad was destroyed by a fierce and raging whirlwind.
The Sure Truth/69:7 He sent it upon them as a scourge for seven nights and eight days. You saw the people fall down like rotten date-palms.

The Scatterers/51:41 (There is a lesson) also in the people of Ad. We sent upon them a terrible wind.

The Moon/54:18 Ad also denied. How is My punishment and My warnings!
The Moon/54:19 We sent upon them a violent wind on a day of inauspiciousness upon inauspiciousness.
The Moon/54:20 It destroyed the people as if they were date-palms uprooted from their roots.

The Sandhills/46:24 "When they finally saw it spreading and heading towards their valley, they said: "This is a cloud that will give us rain. Nay, this is a storm with a painful torment which you have challenged to come."