The 'Aad and Thamud and the destruction of the city of Iram



The Qur'an speaks of Thamud and the 'Aad were sent to their prophet and the prophet Hud Salih. Many explanations about the Koran is, both in terms of capability and kekuatanmereka, and iniquity and their disobedience to God and His Prophet. God ultimately destroy them with earthquakes and hurricanes are very cold again fast. This is illustrated by Al-Haaqqa verses 4-7:

كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ وَعَادٌ بِالْقَارِ‌عَةِ ﴿٤ فَأَمَّا ثَمُودُ فَأُهْلِكُوا بِالطَّاغِيَةِ ﴿٥ وَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَأُهْلِكُوا بِرِ‌يحٍ صَرْ‌صَرٍ‌ عَاتِيَةٍ ﴿٦ سَخَّرَ‌هَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَ‌ى الْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْ‌عَىٰ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ ﴿٧

Thamud and 'Aad denied the Striking Calamity. (4) So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast]. (5) And as for' Aad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind. (6) Which God imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people as if the fallen Therein they were hollow trunks of palm trees. (7)

Elsewhere, Al-Quran explains that the 'ad has a remarkable ability that they have built a city of Iram, with high masts that have not been built in another country.

أَلَمْ تَرَ‌ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَ‌بُّكَ بِعَادٍ ﴿٦ إِرَ‌مَ ذَاتِ الْعِمَادِ ﴿٧ الَّتِي لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِي الْبِلَادِ ﴿٨ وَثَمُودَ الَّذِينَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ‌ بِالْوَادِ ﴿٩

Have you not Considered how your Lord dealt with 'Aad - (6). [With] Iram - who had Lofty pillars. (7) The likes of Whom had never been created in the land? (8) And [with] Thamud, WHO carved out the rocks in the valley? (9)

There is no doubting the Quran this information. But little by little evidence revealed , when information from the Quran were combined with the results of archaeological research. At this stage it is found is the archaeological evidence of the occurrence of earthquakes and hurricanes, as described in the Quran. That period is estimated lifetimes clans who destroyed God, and place diisyaratkat by the scriptures, such as the Jordan valley, the Red Sea, and South Arabia.
 
Of course, this explanation is not satisfactory to all parties. But from day to day more and more evidence is clear and now there is no reason to reject the Quran information. Here is the proof.
 
In 1834, found a script that reads the old Arabic script (Hymarite) that shows the name of the prophet Hud in the land located at Hisn Al-Ghurab near the city of Aden in Yemen. In the manuscript written "we ruled by law Hud". Later in 1964-1969 conducted archaeological excavations, and the results anailis in 1980 found the information from one of the plates of the existence of the town called "Shamutu, 'Ad and Iram". Prof. Pettinato identify these names with the names referred to in the above letter of Al-Fajr.
 
In this context it is also reasonable to think Father Dahood quoted as saying that "between Ebla (2500 BC) and the Koran (625 AD) there is no other references to the cities".
 
Other archaeological evidence about the city of Iram is the result of a desert expedition Nicholas Clapp in South Arabia in 1992. The city of Iram by narrations is a city built by Shaddad ibn 'Ud, a very beautiful city when it was named Ubhur. But God was with avalanche buried city desert so swallow the city as a result of their iniquity.The 'Aad and Thamud and the destruction of the city of Iram 

Nicholas found evidence of an ancient road to Iram (Ubhur) of an explorer. Then, thanks to the help of two other experts, they are Juris Zarin from Missouri State University Southwestern, and the British explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, they are trying to find the lost city together lawyer George Hedges.
 
They use the services of the Challenger space shuttle imaging radar satellite system (SIR) to see parts bring the Arabian desert, allegedly as a sinking city was hit by an avalanche. To be sure, they also asked the French satellite services, which use an optical sensing system. The results they found the digital image in the form of a pale white line that marks the hundreds of kilometers abandoned caravan route, some are under a pile of sand that has accumulated over the centuries, to reach a height of 183 meters.
 
Based on these data Nicholas Clapp and his colleagues examined the soil and search indent at the end of 1991. In February 1992, they found an octagonal building with walls and towers high, reaching about nine meters. And what is meant by the Quran that "[With] Iram - who had Lofty pillars." (Al-Fajr: 7).
Thus once again the Quran to prove His truth and His shows also promise that:

سَنُرِيهِمۡ ءَايَـٰتِنَا فِى ٱلۡأَفَاقِ وَفِىٓ أَنفُسِہِمۡ حَتَّىٰ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمۡ أَنَّهُ ٱلۡحَقُّ‌ۗ أَوَلَمۡ يَكۡفِ بِرَبِّكَ أَنَّهُ ۥ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىۡءٍ۬ شَہِيدٌ

We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within Themselves until it Becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness? (Al-Fushilat : 53)
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