هُود : ٥٩

  • وَتِلۡكَ And this
  • عَادٞۖ (was) Aad
  • جَحَدُواْ they rejected
  • بِـَٔايَٰتِ (the) Signs
  • رَبِّهِمۡ (of) their Lord
  • وَعَصَوۡاْ and disobeyed
  • رُسُلَهُۥ His Messengers
  • وَٱتَّبَعُوٓاْ and followed
  • أَمۡرَ (the) command
  • كُلِّ (of) every
  • جَبَّارٍ tyrant
  • عَنِيدٖ obstinate
And that was ʿAad, who rejected the signs of their Lord and disobeyed His messengers and followed the order of every obstinate tyrant.
And that was 'aad - [this is] an allusion to their remains; in other words, go forth in the land and look at these [remains]. God then describes their case, saying: they knowingly denied the signs of their Lord and disobeyed His messengers (rusulahu is in the plural, because when a person disobeys a messenger he has [effectively] disobeyed all of them, since they share a common principle in that [Message] with which they come, namely, [the principle of] God's Oneness); and they, that is, the riffraff, followed the command of every rebellious tyrant, [every] leader of theirs who is obstinate with regard to the truth.