was sent upon them._ But We delivered him (_namely, Hood_) and them who were with him (_of the believers_) by Our mercy; and We cut off the uppermost part of those who charged Our signs with falsehood and who were not believers. (vii. 63-70.) And _We sent_ unto _the tribe of_ Thamood[204] their brother Ṣáliḥ. He said, O my people, worship God. Ye have no other deity than Him. A _miraculous_ proof _of my veracity_ hath come unto you from your Lord, this she-camel of God being a sign unto you. [He had caused her, at their demand, to come forth from the heart of a rock.] Therefore let her feed in God’s earth, and do her no harm, lest a painful punishment seize you. And remember how He hath appointed you vicegerents _in the earth_ after [the tribe of] ´Ád, and given you a habitation in the earth: ye make yourselves, on its plains, pavilions _wherein ye dwell in summer_, and cut the mountains into houses _wherein ye dwell in winter_. Remember then the benefits of God, and do not evil in the earth, acting corruptly.—The chiefs who were elated with pride, among his people, said unto those who were esteemed weak, _namely_, to those who had believed among them, Do ye know that Ṣáliḥ hath been sent _unto you_ from his Lord? They answered, _Yea_: verily we believe in that wherewith he hath been sent. Those who were elated with pride replied, Verily we disbelieve in that wherein ye have believed.—_And the she-camel had a day to water; and they had a day; and they became weary of this._ And they hamstrung the she-camel (_Ḳudár_ [the son of Sálif] _doing so by their order and slaying her with the sword_);[205] and they impiously transgressed the command of their Lord,[206] and said, O Ṣáliḥ, bring upon us that _punishment_ with which thou threatenest us _for killing her_, if thou be [one] of the apostles. And the violent convulsion (_a great earthquake, and a cry from heaven_[207]) assailed them, and in the morning they were in their dwellings prostrate _and dead_. So he turned away from them, and said, O my people, I have brought unto you the message of my Lord and given you faithful counsel; but ye loved not faithful counsellors. (vii. 71-77.) _DHU-L-ḲARNEYN._