(Tafsir for 44 is identical to 42 ) And if your people belie you-O Messenger-then people of Noah, 'Ad, and Thamud had surely preceded them in the belying of their messengers, and the people of Abraham, and the people of Lot, and the companions of -Madyan-- who belied Shu'ayb, and Pharaoh and his people belied Moses, so I did not hasten these nations with the punishment, but rather I granted them respite, then I took each of them with the punishment, so how was My rejection upon them their disbelief and their belying, and the replacement of what was with them of the blessing with the punishment and the destruction?