1. God sent a messenger from themselves to state clearly
2. Those who disbelieved ridiculed the messenger
3. Every nation intended to seize their messenger
4. The messenger was saved by God, and the criminals were destroyed

40:82 - 85, Qur'an
Have they not traveled through the land and observed how was the end of those before them? They were more numerous than themselves and greater in strength and in impression on the land, but they were not availed by what they used to earn. And when their messengers came to them with clear proofs, they merely rejoiced in what they had of knowledge, but they were enveloped by what they used to ridicule. And when they saw Our punishment, they said, "We believe in God alone and disbelieve in that which we used to associate with Him." But never did their faith benefit them once they saw Our punishment. It is the established way of God which has preceded among His servants. And the disbelievers thereupon lost.

Noah Warned Before the Flood

1. Noah Warned his People

53:52, Qur'an
[Has he not been informed that it is God who destroyed] the people of Noah before? Indeed, it was they who were [even] more unjust and oppressing.

Genesis 6:11 - 13, Torah
[For] the earth was also corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted His way upon the earth. And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."

11:25 - 26, Qur'an
And [thus] We had certainly sent Noah to his people, saying, "Indeed, I am to you a clear warner, that you not worship except God. Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a painful day."

2. Noah was Ridiculed

23:24 - 25, Qur'an
But the eminent among those who disbelieved from his people said, "This is not but a man like yourselves who wishes to take precedence over you; and if God had willed [to send a messenger], He would have sent down angels. We have not heard of this among our forefathers. He is not but a man possessed with [devils of] jinn, so wait concerning him for a time."

7:61 - 62, Qur'an
[Noah] said, "O my people, there is not error in me, but I am a messenger from the Lord of the worlds. I convey to you the messages of my Lord and advise you; and I know from God what you do not know.

11:34, Qur'an
[But] my advice will not benefit you - although I wished to advise you - if God should intend to put you in error. He is your Lord, and to Him you will be returned."

26:111, Qur'an
They said, "Should we believe you while you are followed by the lowest [class of people]?"

71:5 - 8, Qur'an
[So Noah] said, "My Lord, indeed I invited my people [to truth] night and day. But my invitation increased them not except in flight. And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant with great arrogance. Then I invited them publicly."

11:36, Qur'an
[So] it was revealed to Noah that, "No one will believe from your people except those who have already believed, so do not be distressed by what they have been doing."

3. Noah was Threatened to be Stoned

11:28 - 29, Qur'an
[So Noah] said, "O my people, have you considered if I should be upon clear evidence from my Lord while He has given me mercy from Himself but it has been made unapparent to you, should we force it upon you while you are averse to it? And O my people, I ask not of you for it any wealth. My reward is not but from God. And I am not one to drive away those who have believed. Indeed, they will meet their Lord, but I see that you are a people behaving ignorantly."

26:116, Qur'an
[So] they said, "If you do not desist, O Noah, you will surely be of those who are stoned."

4. Noah was Saved, his People were Destroyed

71:21 - 24, Qur'an
[So] Noah said, "My Lord, indeed they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children will not increase him except in loss. And they conspired an immense conspiracy. And said, 'Never leave your gods and never leave Wadd or Suwa or Yaghuth and Ya'uq and Nasr.' And already they have misled many. And, [my Lord], do not increase the wrongdoers except in error."

11:32, Qur'an
[So] they said, "O Noah, you have disputed us and been frequent in dispute of us. So bring us what you threaten us, if you should be of the truthful."

54:10 - 12, Qur'an
So he invoked his Lord, "Indeed, I am overpowered, so help." Then We opened the gates of the heaven with water pouring down and caused the earth to burst with springs, and the waters met for a matter already predestined.

25:37, Qur'an
[Thus,] the people of Noah - when they denied the messengers, We drowned them, and We made them a sign for mankind.

Genesis 7:23, Torah
[Whereby] every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth, and Noah only remained [alive], and those who [were] with him in the ark.

54:13 - 17, Qur'an
[For] We carried him on a construction of planks and nails, sailing under Our eyes as reward for he who had been denied. And We left it as a sign, so are there any who will remember? And how severe were My punishment and warning. And We have certainly made the Qur'an easy for remembrance, so are there any who will remember?

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Hud Warned 'Aad

1. Hud Warned his People

46:21, Qur'an
And remember the brother of 'Aad, when [Hud] warned his people in the [region of] al-Ahqaf - and warners had already passed on before him and after him - [saying], "Do not worship except God. Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a terrible day.

26:126 - 127, Qur'an
So fear God and obey me. And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.

7:68 - 69, Qur'an
[And] I convey to you the messages of my Lord, and I am to you a trustworthy adviser. Then do you wonder that there has come to you a reminder from your Lord through a man from among you, that he may warn you? And remember when He made you successors after the people of Noah and increased you in creation extensively. So remember the favors of God that you might succeed."

2. Hud was Ridiculed

41:15, Qur'an
[But] as for 'Aad, they were arrogant upon the earth without right and said, "Who is greater than us in strength?" Did they not consider that God who created them was greater than them in strength? But they were rejecting Our signs -

26:136 - 138, Qur'an
[For] they said, "It is all the same to us whether you advise or are not of the advisors. This is not but the custom of the former peoples, and we are not to be punished."

7:66, Qur'an
[And] the eminent ones who disbelieved among his people said, "Indeed, we see you in foolishness, and indeed, we think you are of the liars."

11:53 - 56, Qur'an
[And] they said, "O Hud, you have not brought us clear evidence, and we are not ones to leave our gods on your say-so. Nor are we believers in you. We only say that some of our gods have possessed you with evil." He said, "Indeed, I call God to witness, and witness [yourselves] that I am free from whatever you associate with God other than Him. So plot against me all together; then do not give me respite. Indeed, I trust in God, my Lord and your Lord. There is no creature but that He holds its forelock. Indeed, my Lord is on a path [that is] straight."

3. Hud was Threatened to be Driven out of the Land

14:11 - 12, Qur'an
[So] their messengers said to them, "We are only men like you, but God confers favor upon whom He wills of His servants. It has never been for us to bring you evidence except by permission of God. And in God let the believers trust. And why should we not trust in God while He has guided us to our [good] ways? And we will surely be patient against whatever harm you should cause us. And in God let those who would trust [indeed] trust."

14:13 - 15, Qur'an
[But] those who disbelieved said to their messengers, "We will surely drive you out of our land, or you must return to our religion." So their Lord inspired to them, "We will surely destroy the wrongdoers. And We will surely cause you to dwell in the land after them. That is for he who fears My position and fears My threat." And they requested victory from God, and disappointed, [therefore], was every obstinate tyrant.

11:59, Qur'an
And [so] that was 'Aad, who rejected the signs of their Lord and disobeyed His messengers and followed the order of every obstinate tyrant.

4. Hud was Saved,
'Aad was Destroyed

7:70, Qur'an
They said, "Have you come to us that we should leave what our fathers have worshiped and worship God alone? Then bring us what you promise us, if you should be of the truthful."

46:24 - 25, Qur'an
[But] when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said, "This is a cloud bringing us rain!" Rather, it is that for which you were impatient: a wind, within it a painful punishment, destroying everything by command of its Lord. And they became so that nothing was seen [of them] except their dwellings. Thus do We recompense the criminal people.

7:72, Qur'an
So We saved [Hud] and those with him by mercy from Us. And We eliminated those who denied Our signs, and they were not at all believers.

11:60, Qur'an
And they were [therefore] followed in this world with a curse and [as well] on the Day of Resurrection. Unquestionably, 'Aad denied their Lord; then away with 'Aad, the people of Hud.

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Salih Warned Thamud

1. Salih Warned his People

27:45, Qur'an
And We had certainly sent to Thamud their brother Salih, saying, "Worship God," and at once they were two parties conflicting.

27:46, Qur'an
[Salih] said, "O my people, why are you impatient for evil instead of good? Why do you not seek forgiveness of God that you may receive mercy?

7:74, Qur'an
And remember when He made you successors after 'Aad and settled you in the land, [and] you take for yourselves palaces from its plains and carve from the mountains, homes. Then remember the favors of God and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption."

2. Salih was Ridiculed

27:47, Qur'an
[But] they said, "We consider you a bad omen, you and those with you." [Salih] said, "Your omen is with God. Rather, you are a people being tested."

54:24 - 25, Qur'an
[But] Thamud said, "Is it one human being among us that we should follow? Indeed, we would then be in error and madness. Has the message been sent down upon him from among us? Rather, he is an insolent liar."

7:75, Qur'an
[And] the eminent ones who were arrogant among his people said to those who were oppressed - to those who believed among them, "Do you [actually] know that Salih is sent from his Lord?" They said, "Indeed we, in that with which he was sent, are believers."

7:76, Qur'an
Said those who were arrogant, "Indeed we, in that which you have believed, are disbelievers."

3. Salih was Threatened to be Killed

27:49 - 50, Qur'an
[So] they said, "Take a mutual oath by God that we will kill him by night, he and his family. Then we will say to his executor, 'We did not witness the destruction of his family, and indeed, we are truthful.'" And they planned a plan, and We planned a plan, while they did not perceive.

4. Salih was Saved,
Thamud was Destroyed

26:155 - 156, Qur'an
[So Salih] said, "This is a she-camel. For her is a [time of] drink, and for you is a [time of] drink, [each] on a known day. And do not touch her with harm, lest you be seized by the punishment of a terrible day."

7:77 - 78, Qur'an
So they hamstrung the she-camel and were insolent toward the command of their Lord and said, "O Salih, bring us what you promise us, if you should be of the messengers." So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.

27:51 - 53, Qur'an
Then look how was the outcome of their plan - that We destroyed them and their people, all. So those are their houses, desolate because of the wrong they had done. Indeed in that is a sign for people who know. [But] We saved those who believed and used to fear God.

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Abraham Warned Haran

1. Abraham Warned his People

Joshua 24:2, Torah
[Remember when] Joshua said to all the people, "Thus the Lord says, God of Israel, 'Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the river in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor - and they served other gods.'"

19:41 - 42, Qur'an
[So] remember in the Book [the story of] Abraham. Indeed, he was a man of truth and a prophet. When he said to his father, "O my father, why do you worship that which does not hear and does not see and will not benefit you at all?"

29:16 - 18, Qur'an
[Thus] We sent Abraham, [and] he said to his people, "Worship God and fear Him. That is best for you, if you should know. You only worship, besides God, idols, and you produce a falsehood. Indeed, those you worship besides God do not possess for you provision. So seek from God provision and worship Him and be grateful to Him. To Him you will be returned. And if you deny - already nations before you have denied. And there is not upon the messenger except the duty of clear notification."

2. Abraham was Ridiculed

21:51 - 52, Qur'an
[So] We had certainly given Abraham his sound judgement before, and We were of him well-Knowing, when he said to his father and his people, "What are these statues to which you are devoted?"

21:55, Qur'an
They said, "Have you come to us with truth, or are you of those who jest?"

21:58 - 59, Qur'an
So he made [their idols] into fragments, except a large one among them, that they might return to it [and question]. They said, "Who has done this to our gods? Indeed, he is of the wrongdoers."

21:63 - 65, Qur'an
He said, "Rather, this - the largest of them - did it, so ask them, if they should [be able to] speak." So they returned to [blaming] themselves and said [to each other], "Indeed, you are the wrongdoers." Then they reversed themselves, [saying], "You have already known that these do not speak!"

21:66 - 67, Qur'an
He said, "Then do you worship instead of God that which does not benefit you at all or harm you? Uff to you and to what you worship instead of God. Then will you not use reason?"

6:5, Qur'an
[But] they had denied the truth when it came to them, but there is going to reach them the news of what they used to ridicule.

3. Abraham was Threatened to be Stoned and Burned

19:46, Qur'an
[His father] said, "Have you no desire for my gods, O Abraham? If you do not desist, I will surely stone you, so avoid me a prolonged time."

21:68, Qur'an
[And] they said, "Burn him and support your gods - if you are to act."

37:97, Qur'an
[So his people] said, "Construct for him a furnace and throw him into the burning fire."

4. Abraham was Saved, his People were Destroyed

29:24, Qur'an
[Thus] the answer of Abraham's people was not but that they said, "Kill him or burn him," but God saved him from the fire. Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe -

21:69, Qur'an
[For] God said, "O fire, be coolness and safety upon Abraham."

21:70, Qur'an
So they intended for him harm, but We made them the greatest losers.

Genesis 11:32 - 12:1, Torah
And [so] the days of [his father] Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. Now the Lord had said to Abraham, "Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you."

Genesis 12:4, Torah
So Abraham departed, as the Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him, and Abraham [was] seventy five years old when he departed out of Haran.

21:71, Qur'an
[So] We delivered him and Lot to the land which We had blessed for the worlds.

29:26, Qur'an
[For] Lot believed him. [And Abraham] said, "Indeed, I will emigrate to [the service of] my Lord. Indeed, He is the Almighty, the Most Wise."

Genesis 12:5, Torah
And [so] Abraham took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and they came into the land of Canaan.

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Lot Warned Sodom

1. Lot Warned his People

Genesis 18:16 - 17, Torah
[Then] the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. And the Lord said, "Should I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?"

Genesis 13:13, Torah
[For] the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

29:31, Qur'an
And [so] when Our messengers came to Abraham with the good tidings, they said, "Indeed, we will destroy the people of that Lot's city. Indeed, its people have been wrongdoers."

15:61, Qur'an
[Then] the messengers came to the family of Lot -

Genesis 19:1, Torah
[Whereby] there came two angels to Sodom at evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom, and Lot, seeing [them], rose up to meet them; and he prostrated with his face toward the ground.

29:34, Qur'an
[They said,] "Indeed, we will bring down on the people of this city punishment from the heaven because they have been defiantly disobedient."

11:77, Qur'an
[Thus] when Our messengers, [the angels], came to Lot, he was anguished for them and felt for them great discomfort and said, "This is a trying day."

37:133, Qur'an
[So] indeed, Lot was among the messengers.

26:161 - 163, Qur'an
When their brother Lot said to them, "Will you not fear God? Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger. So fear God and obey me."

11:78, Qur'an
[Then] his people came hastening to him, and before [this] they had been doing evil deeds. He said, "O my people, these are my daughters; they are purer for you. So fear God and do not disgrace me concerning my guests. Is there not among you a man of reason?

29:29, Qur'an
[For] you approach men and cut off the road and commit in your meetings [every] evil." And the answer of his people was not but they said, "Bring us the punishment of God, if you should be of the truthful."

2. Lot was Ridiculed

Genesis 19:4 - 5, Torah
But before they laid down, the men of the city, [even] the men of Sodom, encompassed the house, both old and young, all the people from every quarter. And they called to Lot, and said to him, "Where [are] the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them."

15:68 - 69, Qur'an
Lot said, "Indeed, these are my guests, so do not shame me. And fear God and do not disgrace me."

15:70, Qur'an
They said, "Did we not forbid you from the world?"

3. Lot was Threatened to be Evicted

Genesis 19:6 - 7, Torah
[Then] Lot went out at the door to them, and shut the door after him, and said, "I pray you, brethren, do not do so wickedly."

26:167, Qur'an
[But] they said, "If you do not desist, O Lot, you will surely be of those evicted."

Genesis 19:9, Torah
And they said, "Stand back." And they said [again], "This one [fellow] came in to sojourn, and he needs to be a judge, now we will deal worse with you, than with them." And they pressed sore upon the man, [even] Lot, and came near to break the door.

[Wisdom of Solomon 19:14 - 17], Torah
For the Sodomites did not receive those [messengers] whom they did not know when they came; but they brought friends into bondage, who had well deserved of them. And not only so, but peradventure, some respect will be had of those, because they did not use strangers friendly: but they afflicted them very grievously, whom they had received with feasting, and were already made partakers of the same laws with them. Therefore, even they were stricken with blindness, as they were at the doors of the righteous man; when, being compassed about with horrible, great darkness, everyone sought the passage of his own doors.

4. Lot was Saved,
Sodom was Destroyed

54:36 - 38, Qur'an
[Thus] Lot had already warned them of Our assault, but they disputed the warning. And they had demanded from him his guests, but We obliterated their eyes, [saying], "Taste My punishment and warning." And there came upon them by dawn an abiding punishment -

Genesis 19:24 - 25, Torah
[Whereby] the Lord rained brimstone and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

2 Peter 2:6, Gospel
[So] turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, [God] condemned [them] with an overthrow, making [them] an example to those who after should live ungodly.

7:83, Qur'an
[But] We saved him and his family, except for his wife; she was of those who remained with the evildoers.

Luke 17:32, Gospel
[So] remember Lot's wife -

Genesis 19:26, Torah
[For] his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

29:35, Qur'an
And We have certainly left it as a sign of clear evidence for a people who use reason.

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Shu'ayb Warned Midian

1. Shu'ayb Warned his People

29:36, Qur'an
And to Midian We sent their brother Shu'ayb, and he said, "O my people, worship God and expect the Last Day and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption.

7:86 - 87, Qur'an
And do not sit on every path, threatening and averting from the way of God those who believe in Him, seeking to make it seem deviant. And remember when you were few and He increased you. And see how was the end of the corrupters. And if there should be a group among you who has believed in that with which I have been sent and a group that has not believed, then be patient until God judges between us. And He is the best of judges."

7:90, Qur'an
[But] the eminent ones who disbelieved among his people said, "If you should follow Shu'ayb, indeed, you would then be in loss."

11:89 - 90, Qur'an
[So] Shu'ayb said, "O my people, let not your dissension from me cause you to be struck by that similar to what struck the people of Noah or the people of Hud or the people of Salih. And the people of Lot are not from you far away. And ask forgiveness of your Lord and then repent to Him. Indeed, my Lord is Merciful and Affectionate."

2. Shu'ayb was Ridiculed

11:91, Qur'an
They said, "O Shu'ayb, we do not understand much of what you say, and indeed, we consider you among us as weak. And if not for your family, we would have stoned you; and you are not to us one respected."

26:185 - 188, Qur'an
[And] they said, "You are only of those affected by magic. You are but a man like ourselves, and indeed, we think you are among the liars. So cause to fall upon us fragments of the heaven, if you should be of the truthful." [So] he said, "My Lord is most knowing of what you do."

3. Shu'ayb was Threatened to be Evicted

11:87, Qur'an
They said, "O Shu'ayb, does your prayer command you that we should leave what our fathers worship or not do with our wealth what we please? Indeed, you are the forbearing, the discerning!"

11:88, Qur'an
He said, "O my people, have you considered: if I am upon clear evidence from my Lord and He has provided me with a good provision from Him...? And I do not intend to differ from you in that which I have forbidden you; I only intend reform as much as I am able. And my success is not but through God. In Him do I trust, and to Him I return."

7:88, Qur'an
[So] the eminent ones who were arrogant among his people said, "We will surely evict you, O Shu'ayb, and those who have believed with you from our city, or you must return to our religion." He said, "Even if we were unwilling?"

4. Shu'ayb was Saved,
Midian was Destroyed

11:94 - 95, Qur'an
[So] when Our command came, We saved Shu'ayb and those who believed with him, by mercy from Us. And the shriek seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes [corpses] fallen prone as if they had never prospered therein. Then, away with Midian as Thamud was taken away.

7:92 - 93, Qur'an
[And thus] those who denied Shu'ayb - it was as though they had never resided there. Those who denied Shu'ayb - it was they who were in loss. And he turned away from them and said, "O my people, I had certainly conveyed to you the messages of my Lord and advised you, so how could I grieve for a disbelieving people?"

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Moses Warned Pharaoh

1. Moses Warned his People

7:103, Qur'an
Then We sent after them Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his establishment, but they were unjust toward them. So see how was the end of the corrupters -

Exodus 3:9 - 10, Torah
[When God said,] "Now therefore, behold, the cry of the Children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression whereby the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people, the Children of Israel out of Egypt.

20:47 - 48, Qur'an
So go to him and say, 'Indeed, we are messengers of your Lord, so send with us the Children of Israel and do not torment them. We have come to you with a sign from your Lord. And peace will be upon he who follows the guidance. Indeed, it has been revealed to us that the punishment will be upon whoever denies and turns away.'"

10:83, Qur'an
[But] no one believed Moses, except some youths among his people, for fear of Pharaoh and his establishment that they would persecute them. And indeed, Pharaoh was haughty within the land, and indeed, he was of the transgressors.

2. Moses was Ridiculed

43:46 - 47, Qur'an
[So] certainly did We send Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his establishment, and he said, "Indeed, I am the messenger of the Lord of the worlds." But when he brought them Our signs, at once they laughed at them.

26:23 - 24, Qur'an
Pharaoh said, "And what is the Lord of the worlds?" [Moses] said, "The Lord of the heavens and earth and that between them, if you should be convinced."

26:25 - 29, Qur'an
[Pharaoh] said to those around him, "Do you not hear?" [Moses] said, "Your Lord and the Lord of your first forefathers." [Pharaoh] said, "Indeed, your 'messenger' who has been sent to you is mad." [Moses] said, "Lord of the east and the west and that between them, if you were to reason." [Pharaoh] said, "If you take a god other than me, I will surely place you among those imprisoned."

43:51 - 54, Qur'an
[So] Pharaoh called out among his people; he said, "O my people, does the kingdom of Egypt not belong to me, and these rivers flowing beneath me; then do you not see? Or am I not better than this one who is insignificant and hardly makes himself clear? Then why have there not been placed upon him bracelets of gold or come with him the angels in conjunction?" So he bluffed his people, and they obeyed him. Indeed, they were a people defiantly disobedient of God -

20:63, Qur'an
[For] they said, "Indeed, these are two magicians who want to drive you out of your land with their magic and do away with your most exemplary way."

3. Moses was Threatened to be Killed

40:26, Qur'an
[So] Pharaoh said, "Let me kill Moses and let him call upon his Lord. Indeed, I fear that he will change your religion or that he will cause corruption in the land."

40:28 - 29, Qur'an
[But] a believing man from the family of Pharaoh who concealed his faith said, "Do you kill a man [merely] because he says, 'My Lord is God' while he has brought you clear proofs from your Lord? And if he should be lying, then upon him is [the consequence of] his lie; but if he should be truthful, there will strike you some of what he promises you. Indeed, God does not guide one who is a transgressor and a liar. O my people, sovereignty is yours today, [your being] dominant in the land. But who would protect us from the punishment of God if it came to us?" Pharaoh said, "I do not show you except what I see, and I do not guide you except to the way of right conduct."

40:30 - 31, Qur'an
And he who believed said, "O my people, indeed I fear for you [a fate] like the day of the companies - like the custom of the people of Noah and of 'Aad and Thamud and those after them. And God wants no injustice for [His] servants."

7:123 - 124, Qur'an
[But] Pharaoh said, "Indeed, this is a conspiracy which you conspired in the city to expel therefrom its people. But you are going to know. I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides; then I will surely crucify you all."

26:53 - 56, Qur'an
[So] Pharaoh sent among the cities gatherers and said, "Indeed, those are but a small band, and indeed, they are enraging us, and indeed, we are a cautious society..."

7:128, Qur'an
[So] Moses said to his people, "Seek help through God and be patient. Indeed, the earth belongs to God. He causes to inherit it whom He wills of His servants. And the [best] outcome is for the righteous."

4. Moses was Saved,
Pharaoh was Destroyed

Exodus 6:1, Torah
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.

Exodus 7:4 - 5, Torah
[For] Pharaoh will not hear you, that I may lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring forth My armies, [and] My people, the Children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgements. And the Egyptians will know that I [am] the Lord, when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt, and bring out the Children of Israel from among them."

10:90 - 92, Qur'an
[So] We took the Children of Israel across the sea, and Pharaoh and his soldiers pursued them in tyranny and enmity until, when drowning overtook him, he said, "I believe that there is no god except that in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of those in submission [to God]." Now? And you had disobeyed [Him] before and were of the corrupters? So today We will save you in body that you may be to those who succeed you a sign. And indeed, many among the people, of Our signs, are heedless.

17:103, Qur'an
So he intended to drive them from the land, but We drowned him and those with him all together.

Psalms 106:10 - 11, Torah
And [thus] He saved them from the hand of him who hated [them], and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters covered their enemies, there was not one of them left.

40:45, Qur'an
So God protected [Moses] from the evils they plotted, and the people of Pharaoh were enveloped by the worst of punishment -

79:25 - 26, Qur'an
God seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression]. Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [God].

44:25 - 27, Qur'an
[And] how many did they leave behind of gardens and springs and noble sites and crops and comfort wherein they were amused?

43:56, Qur'an
[Thus] We made them a precedent and an example for the later peoples.

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We have Certainly Given you Seven of the Often Repeated Narrations

We Sent Our Messengers - Noah, Hud, Salih, Abraham, Lot, Shu'ayb, and Moses - then Made them Narrations

7:101, Qur'an
Those cities - We relate to you, some of their news. And certainly did their messengers come to them with clear proofs, but they were not to believe in that which they had denied before. Thus does God seal over the hearts of the disbelievers.

23:42 - 44, Qur'an
Then We produced after them other generations. No nation will precede its time [of termination], nor will they remain [thereafter]. Then We sent Our messengers in succession. Every time there came to a nation its messenger, they denied him, so We made them follow one another [to destruction], and We made them narrations. So away with a people who do not believe.

15:84 - 87, Qur'an
So nothing availed them [from] what they used to earn. And We have not created the heavens and earth and that between them except in truth. And indeed, the Hour is coming; so forgive with gracious forgiveness. Indeed, your Lord - He is the Knowing Creator. And We have certainly given you [O Muhammad], seven of the often repeated [narrations] and the great Qur'an.

22:42 - 44, Qur'an
[But] if they deny you [O Muhammad], - so, before them, did the people of Noah [1] and 'Aad [2] and Thamud [3] deny [their prophets], and the people of Abraham [4] and the people of Lot [5] and the inhabitants of Midian [6]. And Moses [7] was denied, so I prolonged enjoyment for the disbelievers; then I seized them, and how [terrible] was My reproach.

26:103 - 106, Qur'an
[So] indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers. And indeed, your Lord - He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. The people of Noah [1] denied the messengers, when their brother Noah said to them, "Will you not fear God?"

26:121 - 124, Qur'an
Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers. And indeed, your Lord - He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. 'Aad [2] denied the messengers, when their brother Hud said to them, "Will you not fear God?"

26:139 - 142, Qur'an
[But] they denied him, so We destroyed them. Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers. And indeed, your Lord - He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. Thamud [3] denied the messengers, when their brother Salih said to them, "Will you not fear God?"

26:67 - 70, Qur'an
Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers. And indeed, your Lord - He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. And recite to them the news of Abraham [4], when he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?"

26:158 - 161, Qur'an
[But they denied him, so] the punishment seized them. Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers. And indeed, your Lord - He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. The people of Lot [5] denied the messengers, when their brother Lot said to them, "Will you not fear God?"

26:174 - 177, Qur'an
Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers. And indeed, your Lord - He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. The companions of the thicket [6] denied the messengers, when Shu'ayb said to them, "Will you not fear God?"

26:8 - 11, Qur'an
Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers. And indeed, your Lord - He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. And when your Lord called Moses [7], [saying], "Go to the wrongdoing people - the people of Pharaoh. Will they not fear God?"

26:190 - 191, Qur'an
Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers. And indeed, your Lord - He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful.

39:23, Qur'an
[Thus] God has sent down the best statement: a consistent Book wherein is reiteration. The skins shiver therefrom of those who fear their Lord; then their skins and their hearts relax at the remembrance of God. That is the guidance of God by which He guides whom He wills. And one whom God leaves astray - for him there is no guide -

12:111, Qur'an
[For] there was certainly in their stories a lesson for those of understanding. Never was the Qur'an a narration invented, but a guidance and mercy for a people who believe and a confirmation of what was before it and a detailed explanation of all things.

60:6, Qur'an
[Whereby] there has certainly been for you in [Abraham and those with him] an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in God and the Last Day. And whoever turns away - then indeed, God is the Free of need, the Praiseworthy.

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Jeremiah and the Prophets Warned Jerusalem

1. The Prophets Warned their People

Jeremiah 7:25 - 28, Torah
"Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending [them] daily. Yet they did not listen to Me, nor incline their ear, but they hardened their neck, they did worse than their fathers. Therefore you will speak all these words to them; but they will not hear you, you will also call to them; but they will not answer you. But you will say to them, 'This [is] a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God, nor receives correction, truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.'

Jeremiah 23:14, Torah
I have also seen in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing, they commit adultery, and they walk in lies, they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none return from his wickedness, all of them are to Me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah."

Hosea 4:1, Torah
[Thus] hear the word of the Lord, you Children of Israel, for the Lord has contention with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Isaiah 59:3 - 4, Torah
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. None call for justice, nor [do any] plead for truth, they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Jeremiah 35:15, Torah
"[So] I have sent all My servants to you, the prophets, saying, 'Return now, every man from his evil way, and amend your actions, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you must dwell in the land which I have given to you and your fathers,' but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to Me.

Jeremiah 18:11, Torah
Now therefore go [O Jeremiah], speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus the Lord says; 'Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you, return now, everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

Jeremiah 7:5 - 7, Torah
For if you amend your ways and your doings; if you execute judgement between a man and his neighbor; [if] you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt. Then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.

Deuteronomy 28:15, Torah
[But] it will come to pass, if you will not hear the voice of the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses will come upon you, and overtake you -

Deuteronomy 28:49 - 52, Torah
The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you will not understand; a nation of fierce countenance, which will not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young. And he will eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed, which [also] will not leave you [either] corn, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of your young cows, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you. And he will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced walls come down, wherein you trusted, throughout all your land, and he will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:48, Torah
[And] you will serve your enemies which the Lord will send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all [things], and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until He has destroyed you.'

Ezekiel 5:14 - 15, Torah
Moreover I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that [are] around you, in the sight of all who pass by. So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment to the nations that [are] around you, when I will execute judgements in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken [it]."

2. The Prophets were Ridiculed

2 Chronicles 36:15 - 16, Torah
[So] the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by His messengers, rising up early, and sending; because He had compassion on His people, and on His dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and misused His prophets -

Jeremiah 18:18, Torah
[For] they said, "Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words."

Jeremiah 20:7 - 8, Torah
[So Jeremiah said,] "O Lord, You have deceived me, and I was deceived, You are stronger than I, and have prevailed, I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me. For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily."

Jeremiah 11:9 - 10, Torah
[So] the Lord said to me, "[O Jeremiah,] a conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My words; and they went after other gods to serve them, the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 9:3 - 6, Torah
[For] they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me," the Lord says. "Take heed, everyone of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. And everyone will deceive his neighbor, and will not speak the truth, they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity. Your habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me," the Lord says.

Jeremiah 6:13, Torah
"For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 10:11, Torah
Thus you will say to them, 'The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they will perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

Jeremiah 51:18, Torah
[For] they [are] vanity, the work of errors, they will perish in the time of their visitation.

Jeremiah 7:8 - 9, Torah
[For] behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know?

Jeremiah 2:28, Torah
[Then] where [are] your gods that you have made? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble, for your gods are [according to] the number of your cities, O Judah.

Jeremiah 26:6, Torah
[And thus] I will make this House like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.'"

3. The Prophets were Threatened to be Killed

Jeremiah 26:7 - 9, Torah
So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the House of the Lord. Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded [him] to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, "You will surely die. Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, 'This House will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate without an inhabitant?'" And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the House of the Lord.

Jeremiah 26:11, Torah
Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, "This man is worthy to die; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears."

Jeremiah 38:4, Torah
Therefore the princes said to the king, "We beseech you, let this man be put to death, for he thus weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them, for this man does not seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt."

Jeremiah 11:19, Torah
[And thus] I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], "Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no longer remembered."

Ezekiel 9:9, Torah
Then He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness, for they say, 'The Lord has forsaken the earth, and the Lord does not see.'"

Lamentations 3:60 - 62, Torah
"[But] You have seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, [and] all their imaginations against me; the lips of those who rose up against me, and their device against me all the day."

[Sirach 49:7], Torah
For they entreated [Jeremiah] evil, who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother's womb, that he might root out, and afflict, and destroy; and that he might build up also, and plant.

Jeremiah 18:23, Torah
[So Jeremiah said,] "Yet, Lord, You know all their counsel against me to slay [me], do not forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from Your sight, but let them be overthrown before You; deal [thus] with them in the time of Your anger."

Jeremiah 11:11 - 12, Torah
Therefore the Lord thus says, "Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they will not be able to escape; and though they will cry to Me, I will not hear them. Then the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem will go, and cry to the gods to whom they offer incense, but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble."

4. The Prophets were Saved,
Jerusalem was Destroyed

Jeremiah 25:2 - 3, Torah
[So] Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, "From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, that [is] the twenty third year, the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but you have not listened."

Jeremiah 35:17, Torah
Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel says, "Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered."

Jeremiah 25:8, Torah
[And] thus the Lord of hosts says; "Because you have not heard My words -

Psalms 37:38 - 40, Torah
The transgressors will be destroyed together, the end of the wicked will be cut off. But the salvation of the righteous [is] of the Lord, [He is] their strength in the time of trouble. And the Lord will help them, and deliver them, He will deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in Him.

Jeremiah 21:8 - 9, Torah
And [so] you will say to this people, 'Thus the Lord says; 'Behold, I set the way of life before you, and the way of death. He who abides in this city will die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he who goes out, and falls to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he will live, and his life will be to him for a prey.

Jeremiah 25:9, Torah
[For] behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' the Lord says, 'And Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.'"

17:5, Qur'an
So when the [time of] promise came for the first of them [in Jerusalem], We sent against you servants of Ours - those of great military might, and they probed [even] into the homes, and it was a promise fulfilled -

Jeremiah 39:1, Torah
[For] in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar came, king of Babylon, [My servant,] and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

2 Kings 25:9 - 10, Torah
And he burnt the House of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and he burnt every great [man's] house with fire. And the entire army of the Chaldees that [was with] the captain of the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

Jeremiah 39:11 - 12, Torah
[But] Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, [My servant,] gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, saying, "Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him even as he will say to you."

Jeremiah 15:11, Torah
[For] the Lord said, "Verily it will be well with your remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat you [well] in the time of evil and in the time of affliction."

Lamentations 1:8,Torah
[But] Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed, all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness, indeed, she sighs, and turns backward.

Jeremiah 44:2, Torah
Thus the Lord of hosts says, the God of Israel; "You have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, they [are] a desolation this day, and no man dwells therein.

Jeremiah 49:17 - 18, Torah
Edom will also be a desolation, everyone who goes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all the plagues thereof. As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor [cities] thereof," the Lord says, "No man will abide there, neither will a son of man dwell in it.

Jeremiah 25:11, Torah
[For] this whole land will be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years -

Jeremiah 44:3 - 6, Torah
Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke Me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, whom they did not know, [neither] they, you, nor your fathers. Howbeit I sent all My servants the prophets to you, rising early and sending [them], saying, 'Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.' But they did not listen, nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to not burn incense to other gods. Therefore My fury and My anger were poured forth, and were kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day."

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There has been in them an Excellent Pattern for Anyone whose Hope is in the Last Day

Every Time there Came to a Nation its Messenger, they Denied him, so We Made them Follow One Another to Destruction, and We Made them Narrations

11:100 - 102, Qur'an
That is from the news of the cities, which We relate to you; of them, some are [still] standing and some are [as] a harvest [mowed down]. And We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. And they were not availed at all by their gods which they invoked other than God when there came the command of your Lord. And they did not increase them in other than ruin. And thus is the seizure of your Lord when He seizes the cities while they are committing wrong. Indeed, His seizure is painful and severe.

32:26, Qur'an
[So] has it not become clear to them how many generations We destroyed before them, [as] they walk among their dwellings? Indeed in that are signs; then do they not hear?

14:45, Qur'an
[For] you lived among the dwellings of those who wronged themselves, and it had become clear to you how We dealt with them. And We presented for you [many] examples -

60:4 - 6, Qur'an
[For] there has already been for you an excellent pattern in Abraham and those with him, when they said to their people, "Indeed, we are disassociated from you and from whatever you worship other than God. We have denied you, and there has appeared between us and you animosity and hatred forever until you believe in God alone" except for the saying of Abraham to his father, "I will surely ask forgiveness for you, but I have not [power to do] for you anything against God. Our Lord, in You do we trust, and to You we have returned, and to You is the destination. Our Lord, make us not torment for the disbelievers and forgive us, our Lord. Indeed, it is You who is the Almighty, the Most Wise." There has certainly been for you in them an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in God and the Last Day. And whoever turns away - then indeed, God is the Free of need, the Praiseworthy.

1. God Sent a Messenger from themselves to State Clearly

16:36, Qur'an
We certainly sent into every nation a messenger, [saying], "Worship God and avoid false gods." And among them were those whom God guided, and among them were those upon whom error was [deservedly] decreed. So proceed through the earth and observe how was the end of the deniers -

23:44, Qur'an
[For] We sent Our messengers in succession. Every time there came to a nation its messenger, they denied him, so We made them follow one another to destruction, and We made them narrations. So away with a people who do not believe.

20:134, Qur'an
[But] if We had destroyed them with a punishment before him, they would have said, "Our Lord, why did You not send to us a messenger so we could have followed Your verses before we were humiliated and disgraced?"

23:32, Qur'an
[Thus] We sent among them a messenger from themselves, [saying], "Worship God; you have no god other than Him; then will you not fear Him?"

Jeremiah 25:4 - 7, Torah
And [thus] the Lord has sent all His servants the prophets to you, rising early and sending [them]; but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear. They said, "Turn again now, everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. And do not go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke Me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. Yet you have not listened to Me," the Lord says; "That you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt."

2. Those who Disbelieved Ridiculed the Messenger

18:56, Qur'an
[So] We do not send the messengers except as warners and bringers of good tidings. [But] those who disbelieve dispute by [using] falsehood to [attempt to] invalidate thereby the truth and have taken My verses, and that of which they are warned, in ridicule.

43:6 - 7, Qur'an
[Thus] how many a prophet We sent among the former peoples, but there would not come to them a prophet except that they used to ridicule him.

John 4:44, Gospel
[And so] Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

25:31, Qur'an
And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the criminals. But sufficient is your Lord as a guide and a helper.

3. Every Nation Intended to Seize their Messenger

6:34, Qur'an
[So] certainly were messengers denied before you, but they were patient over [the effects of] denial, and they were harmed until Our victory came to them. And none can alter the words of God. And there has certainly come to you some information about the [previous] messengers.

4. The Messenger was Saved by God,
The Wrongdoers were Destroyed

27:71 - 72, Qur'an
And [so] they say, "When is [the fulfillment of] this promise, if you should be truthful?" Say, "Perhaps it is close behind you - some of that for which you are impatient."

13:6, Qur'an
[And thus] they impatiently urge you to bring about evil before good, while there has already occurred before them similar punishments [to what they demand]. And indeed, your Lord is full of forgiveness for the people despite their wrongdoing, and indeed, your Lord is severe in penalty -

29:40, Qur'an
[For] each We seized for his sin; and among them were those upon whom We sent a storm of stones, and among them were those who were seized by the blast [from the heaven], and among them were those whom We caused the earth to swallow, and among them were those whom We drowned. And God would not have wronged them, but it was they who were wronging themselves.

17:16, Qur'an
[For] when We intend to destroy a city, We command its affluent but they defiantly disobey therein; so the word comes into effect upon it, and We destroy it with [complete] destruction.

26:208 - 209, Qur'an
[But] We did not destroy any city except that it had warners as a reminder; and never have We been unjust.

7:94 - 96, Qur'an
[For] We sent to no city a prophet [who was denied] except that We seized its people with poverty and hardship that they might humble themselves [to God]. Then We exchanged in place of the bad [condition], good, until they increased [and prospered] and said, "Our fathers were [also] touched with hardship and ease." So We seized them suddenly while they did not perceive. [So] if only the people of the cities had believed and feared God, We would have opened upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth; but they denied [the messengers], so We seized them for what they were earning."

10:98 - 99, Qur'an
Then has there not been a [single] city that believed so its faith benefited it except the people of Jonah? When they believed, We removed from them the punishment of disgrace in worldly life and gave them enjoyment for a time. [But] had your Lord willed, those on earth would have believed - all of them entirely. Then, would you compel the people in order that they become believers?

22:42 - 46, Qur'an
[So] if they deny you, - so, before them, did the people of Noah and 'Aad and Thamud deny [their prophets], and the people of Abraham and the people of Lot and the inhabitants of Midian. And Moses was denied, so I prolonged enjoyment for the disbelievers; then I seized them, and how [terrible] was My reproach. [So] how many a city did We destroy while it was committing wrong - so it is [now] fallen into ruin - and [how many] an abandoned well and [how many] a lofty palace? So have they not traveled through the earth and have hearts by which to reason and ears by which to hear? For indeed, it is not eyes that are blinded, but blinded are the hearts which are within the breasts.

29:43, Qur'an
[So] these examples We present to the people, but none will understand them except those of knowledge.

Psalms 92:6 - 9, Torah
[For] a brutish man does not know; neither does a fool understand this. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish; [it is] they that will be destroyed forever. But You, Lord, [are Most] High for evermore. For, look, Your enemies, O Lord, for, look, Your enemies will perish; all the workers of iniquity will be scattered -

17:58, Qur'an
[For] there is no city but that We will destroy it before the Day of Resurrection or punish it with a severe punishment. That has ever been in the Register inscribed.

10:103, Qur'an
[But] We will save Our messengers and those who have believed. Thus, it is an obligation upon Us that We save the believers.

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Jesus and his Disciples Warned
the Lost Sheep of Israel

1. Jesus and his Disciples Warned their People

5:46, Qur'an
[Then] We sent, following in their footsteps, Jesus, the son of Mary, confirming that which came before him in the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel, in which was guidance and light and confirming that which preceded it of the Torah as guidance and instruction for the righteous.

43:59, Qur'an
Jesus was not but a servant [of God, and the Messiah] upon whom We bestowed favor, and We made him an example for the Children of Israel.

Mark 3:14, Gospel
And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach.

Matthew 10:5 - 7, Gospel
[So] Jesus sent forth these twelve, and commanded them, saying, "Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into any city of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of the heavens is at hand.'"

Mark 6:10 - 11, Gospel
And he said to them, "If you enter into a house, abide there until you depart from that place. And whoever will not receive you, nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say to you, 'It will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgement, than for that city.'"

Luke 8:1, Gospel
And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God, and the twelve were with him.

2. Jesus and his Disciples were Ridiculed

43:57, Qur'an
[But] when the son of Mary was presented as an example, immediately your people laughed aloud.

Matthew 9:24, Gospel
[For when] Jesus spoke to them, "Give place, for the maid is not dead, but sleeps." - they laughed him to scorn.

Luke 16:14, Gospel
And [when] the Pharisees, who were covetous, also heard all these things, they derided him.

John 7:12, Gospel
And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him, for some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "No; but he deceives the people."

John 10:20, Gospel
And many of them said, "[Jesus] has a devil, and is mad; why do you hear him?"

Matthew 5:11 - 12, Gospel
[So Jesus opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,] "Blessed are you, when [men] will revile you, and persecute [you], and will say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great [is] your reward in the heavens, for they so persecuted the prophets who were before you."

3. The Disciples were Hated and Threatened

John 15:19, Gospel
[Jesus said,] "If you were of the world, the world would love his own, but I have chosen you out of the world, and because you are not of the world, the world hates you."

Luke 6:22 - 23, Gospel
[So] Jesus lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you, when men will hate you, and when they will separate you from their company, and will reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for, behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did to the prophets in like manner.

Matthew 10:16 - 18, Gospel
[So] behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

Luke 21:16 - 17, Gospel
And you will be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinsfolk, and friends; and [some] of you they will cause to be put to death. And you will be hated of all for my name's sake.

John 16:2 - 3, Gospel
[And] they will put you out of the synagogues, the time comes, that whoever kills you will think that he does God a service. And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the [Creator], nor me.

John 15:20 - 21, Gospel
[For] remember the word that I said to you, 'The servant is not greater than his lord.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent me.

Luke 21:18 - 19, Gospel
But there will not a hair of your head perish. In your patience possess your souls.

Matthew 10:23, Gospel
[So] when they persecute you in this city, flee into another, for verily I say to you, 'You will not have gone over the cities of Israel, until the Son of man has come.'

Luke 21:20, Gospel
[Then] when you will see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near.

Luke 21:31 - 32, Gospel
[So] when you see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is near at hand. Verily I say to you, 'This generation will not pass away, until all is fulfilled.'

Luke 17:26 - 27, Gospel
And [thus,] as it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of man. They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all."

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Jesus and his Disciples Warned
the Lost Sheep of Israel

4. Jerusalem was Trodden Down by the Gentiles through God, but whoever will Call on the Lord will be Saved

The Romans sieged Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD. Titus reportedly said that the victory did not come through his own efforts but that he had merely served as an instrument of God's wrath. - Flavius Josephus

Luke 13:2 - 3, Gospel
And Jesus, answering, said to them, "Do you suppose that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, 'No, but, except you repent, you will all likewise perish.'

Luke 13:4 - 5, Gospel
Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, do you think that they were sinners above all men who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, 'No, but, except you repent, you will all likewise perish.'"

Luke 19:41 - 44, Gospel
[And so] when Jesus had come near, he beheld the city Jerusalem, and wept over it, saying, "If you had known, even you, at least in this day of yours, the things belonging to your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, that your enemies will cast a trench about you, and encompass you around, and keep you in on every side, and will lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another; because you did not know the time of your visitation."

Isaiah 10:3 - 4, Torah
And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation [which] will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory? Without Me they will bow down under the prisoners, and they will fall under the slain. For all this, His anger is not turned away, but His hand [is] stretched out still.

*Luke 23:28 - 30, Gospel
[So] Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they will say, 'Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the paps which never gave suck.' Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us;' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'

*Hosea 10:8, Torah
[For] the high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed, the thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars; and they will say to the mountains, "Cover us;" and to the hills, "Fall on us."

Luke 21:21 - 23, Gospel
Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let those who are in the midst of it depart out; and do not let those who are in the countries enter therein. For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people."

Matthew 24:1 - 2, Gospel
[So] Jesus went out, and departed from the temple, and his disciples came to [him] to show him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Verily I say to you, 'There will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.'"

17:7, Qur'an
[So] when the final promise came, [We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and to enter the temple in Jerusalem, as [Our servant Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon,] entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had taken over with total destruction.

[Barnabas 16:5], Gospel
[Thus] it was revealed how the city and the temple and the people of Israel should be betrayed. For the Scripture says; "And it will be in the last days, that the Lord will deliver up the sheep of the pasture and the fold and the tower thereof to destruction." And it came to pass as the Lord spoke.

Acts 3:22 - 24, Gospel
For Moses truly said to the fathers, "The Lord your God will raise up a prophet to you from your brothers, like me; you will hear him in all things whatsoever he will say to you. And it will come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, will be destroyed from among the people." Indeed, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

2 Peter 2:5 - 6, Gospel
[For God] did not spare the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those after that should live ungodly -