[1969] This is ‘the canon of the ancients’ (see Aya 38 above) who pitted themselves against God and His Messengers (cf. al-Rāzī).
[1970] “And the people of ʿĀd and Thamūd ˹met a similar fate˺, which must be clear to you from their ˹ruined˺ dwellings. Satan prettified their deeds to them, hindering them from the path, although they were capable of seeing. *˹We˺ also ˹destroyed˺ Korah, Pharaoh, and Hāmān. Indeed, Mūsā had come to them with clear proofs, but they waxed arrogant in the land. Yet they could not escape ˹Us˺. *So We seized each ˹people˺ for their sin: against some of them We sent a storm of stones, some were overtaken by a ˹mighty˺ blast, some We caused the Earth to swallow, and some We drowned. Allah would not have treated then unjustly, but it was they who were unjust to themselves” (29: 38-40).