The people of Noah belied before these disbelievers, and whoever followed them from the nations that announced their war against the messengers like 'Ad and Thamud, when they resolved to harm them and gathered against them with torture or killing, and every nation of these denying nations intended for their messenger to kill him, and they disputed with falsehood; to nullify the truth by their argumentation, so I punished them, then how was My punishment for them a lesson for the creation, and an exhortation for who comes after them?