The Themoudites also treated their Apostles as liars,

When their brother Saleh said to them, “Will ye not fear God?

I am your Apostle worthy of all credit:

Fear God, then, and obey me.

I ask of you no reward for this: my reward is of the Lord of the Worlds alone.

Shall ye be left secure amid these things here?

Amid gardens and fountains,

And corn-fields and palm-trees, with flower-sheathing branches?

And, insolent that ye are, will ye hew out your dwellings in the mountains?

But fear God and obey me,

And obey not the bidding of those who commit excess,

Who act disorderly on the earth and reform it not.”

They said, “Certainly thou art a person bewitched;

Thou art only a man like us: produce now a sign if thou art a man of truth.”

He said, “This she-camel, then—drink shall there be for her, and drink shall there be for you, on a several day for each.

But harm her not, lest the punishment of a tremendous day overtake you.”

But they ham-strung her, and repented of it on the morrow;

For the punishment overtook them. In this truly was a sign, but most of them believed not.

But thy Lord!—He is the Powerful, the Merciful!

The people of Lot treated their apostles as liars,

When their brother Lot said to them, “Will ye not fear God?

I am your Apostle worthy of all credit:

Fear God, then, and obey me.

For this I ask you no reward: my reward is of the Lord of the worlds alone.

What! with men, of all creatures, will ye have commerce?

And leave ye your wives whom your Lord hath created for you? Ah! ye are an erring people!”

They said, “O Lot, if thou desist not, one of the banished shalt thou surely be.”

He said, “I utterly abhor your doings:

My Lord! deliver me and my family from what they do.”