The Concept Of Punishment

IN THE QUR'AN PUNISHMENT IN HELL AS DESCRIBED IN THE QUR'AN

The Companions of Hell Will Have Dreadful Appearances

We will brand him on the snout! (Surat al-Qalam, 16)

Eyes downcast, darkened by debasement, that will be the Day which they were promised. (Surat al-Ma'arij, 44)

And faces that Day will be gloomy. (Surat al-Qiyama, 24)

There are Whips Made of Iron for Disbelievers

So your Lord unleashed on them a scourging punishment. (Surat al-Fajr, 13)

And they will be beaten with whips made of iron. (Surat al-Hajj, 21)

Their Bodies Will be Branded in the Fire

On the Day it is heated up in the fire of Hell and their foreheads, sides and backs are branded with it: 'This is what you hoarded for yourselves, so taste what you were hoarding!' (Surat at-Tawba, 35)

They Will be Bound in Shackles

That Day you will see the evildoers yoked together in fetters. (Surah Ibrahim, 49)

With Us there are shackles and a Blazing Fire. (Surat al-Muzzammil, 12)

They Will be Bound in Chains and Iron Collars

We have made ready for the disbelievers shackles and chains and a Searing Blaze (Surat al-Insan, 4)

If you are surprised at their blindness, what could be more surprising than their words: 'What, when we are turned to dust, shall we then be created all anew?' These are the people who reject their Lord. Such people have iron collars round their necks. Such people are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (Surat ar-Rad, 5)

And those who were deemed weak shall say to those who were proud. Nay, (it was) planning by night and day when you told us to disbelieve in Allah and to set up likes with Him. And they shall conceal regret when they shall see the punishment; and We will put shackles on the necks of those who disbelieved; they shall not be requited but what they did. (Surah Saba, 33)

We have put iron collars round their necks reaching up to the chin, so that their heads are forced back. (Surah Ya Sin, 8)

... when they have shackles and chains around their necks and are dragged along the ground. (Surah Ghafir, 71)

There is the Punishment of Fire

As for those who reject Our Signs, We will roast them in a Fire. Every time their skins are burned off, We will replace them with new skins so that they can taste the punishment. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (Surat an-Nisa, 56)

The Fire will sear their faces, and they will therein grin, with their lips displaced. making them grimace horribly in it, their lips drawn back from their teeth. (Surat al-Mu'minun, 104)

On the Day it is heated up in the fire of Hell and their foreheads, sides and backs are branded with it: 'This is what you hoarded for yourselves, so taste what you were hoarding!' (Surat at-Tawba, 35)

Disbelievers Will be Firewood and Fuel for Hellfire

The deviators will be firewood for Hellfire. (Surat al-Jinn, 15)

You who believe! Safeguard yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones. Harsh, terrible angels are in charge of it who do not disobey Allah in respect of any order He gives them and carry out what they are ordered to do. (Surat at-Tahrim, 6)

As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for the Fire. (Surah Al 'Imran, 10)

You and what you worship besides Allah are fuel for Hell. You will go down into it. (Al-Anbiya', 98)

Boiling Water Will Welcome Them

Abandon those who have turned their religion into a game and a diversion and who have been deluded by the life of this world. Remind by it lest a person is delivered up to destruction for what he has earned with no protector or intercessor besides Allah. Were he to offer every kind of compensation, it would not be accepted from him. Such people are delivered up to destruction for what they have earned. They will have scalding water to drink and a painful punishment because they were disbelievers. (Surat al-An'am, 70)

And if he is one of the misguided deniers, there is hospitality of scalding water and roasting in the Blazing Fire. (Surat al-Waqi'a, 92-94)

'Seize him and drag him bodily into the middle of the Blazing Fire. Then pour the punishment of boiling water on his head.' Taste that! You are the mighty one, the noble one! This is the very thing you used to doubt. (Surat ad-Dukhan, 46-50)

And the Companions of the Left: how wretched are those of the Companions of the Left? Amid searing blasts and scalding water. (Surat al-Waqi'a, 41-42)

Then they will have a boiling brew to drink on top of it. Then their destination will be the Blazing Fire. (Surat as-Saffat, 67-68)

This! So let them taste it – boiling water and scalding pus. (Surah Sâd, 57)

drinking from a boiling spring. (Surat al-Ghashiyya, 5)

Each and every one of you will return to Him. Allah's promise is true. He brings creation out of nothing and then regenerates it so that he can repay with justice those who believed and did right actions. Those who disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water and a painful punishment because of their disbelief. (Surah Yunus, 4)

Here are two rival groups who disputed concerning their Lord. Those who disbelieve will have garments of fire cut out for them, and boiling water poured over their heads. (Surat al-Hajj, 19)

It is Smoky and Misty

And shadow of black smoke, neither cool nor refreshing. (Surat al-Waqi'a, 43-44)

They are Flung into Narrow Places

When they are flung into a narrow place in it, shackled together in chains, they will cry out there for destruction. 'Do not cry out today for just one destruction, cry out for many destructions!' (Surat al-Furqan, 13-14)

They ask you to hasten the punishment but Hell already encircles the disbelievers. On the Day the punishment envelops them from above them and from underneath their feet, He will say, 'Taste what you were doing!' (Surat al-Ankabut, 54-55)

They Will Eat From the Tree of Zaqqum and the Thorny Bush

Is that better by way of hospitality or the tree of Zaqqum which We have made to be an ordeal for the wrongdoers? It is a tree that emerges in the depths of the Blazing Fire. Its fruits are just like the heads of satans. They will eat from it and fill their bellies with it. (Surat as-Saffat, 62-66)

They have no food but a bitter thorny bush which neither nourishes nor satisfies. (Surat al-Ghashiyya, 6-7)

He used not to believe in Allah the Magnificent, nor did he urge the feeding of the poor. Therefore here today he has no friend nor any food except exuding pus which no one will eat except those who were in error.' (Surat al-Haqqa, 33-37)

And beyond him is Hell where he will be given pus to drink. He gulps at it but can hardly swallow it down. Death comes at him from every side but he does not die. And beyond him is relentless punishment. (Surah Ibrahim, 16-17)

The Tree of az-Zaqqum is the food of the wicked, seething in the belly like molten brass, as boiling water bubbles and seethes. (Surat ad-Dukhan, 43-46)

They Will Wear Garments of Fire

Here are two rival groups who disputed concerning their Lord. Those who disbelieve will have garments of fire cut out for them, and boiling water poured over their heads. (Surat al-Hajj, 19)

Their Shirts Will Be of Tar

Wearing shirts of tar, their faces enveloped in the Fire. (Surah Ibrahim, 50)

The Walls of Hell Encompass Disbelievers

Say: 'It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe and whoever wishes be disbelievers.' We have prepared for the wrongdoers a Fire whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them in. If they call for help, they will be helped with water like seething molten brass, frying their faces. What a noxious drink! What an evil repose! (Surat al-Kahf, 29)

The Terrible Roaring of Hell Will be Heard

Those who reject their Lord will have the punishment of Hell. What an evil destination! When they are flung into it they will hear it gasping harshly as it seethes. (Surat al-Mulk, 6-7)

Allah will not Speak to Disbelievers

Those who sell Allah's contract and their own oaths for a paltry price, such people will have no portion in the hereafter and on the Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or look at them or purify them. They will have a painful punishment. (Surah Al 'Imran, 77)

Its Terrible Raging and Roaring Will be Heard From a Long Way Off

When it shall come into their sight from a distant place, they shall hear its vehement raging and roaring. (Surat al-Furqan, 12)

They Will be Disgraced

Our Lord, those You cast into the Fire, You have indeed disgraced. The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (Surah Al 'Imran, 192)

Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated. (Surat al-Ghashiyya, 2)

There They Will Acknowledge Their Wrongdoing

It all but bursts with rage. Each time a group is flung into it its custodians will question them: 'Did no warner come to you?' They will say, 'Yes indeed, a warner did come to us but we denied him and said, "Allah has sent nothing down. You are just greatly misguided."' They will say, 'If only we had really listened and used our intellect, we would not have been Companions of the Blaze.' Then they will acknowledge their wrong actions. Away with the Companions of the Blaze! (Surat al-Mulk, 8-11)

They will say, 'Our Lord, twice You caused us to die and twice You gave us life. We admit our wrong actions. Is there no way out?' (Surah Ghafir, 11)

They Will Ask the Companions of Paradise for Water and Provisions, But These will not be Provided

The Companions of the Fire will call out to the Companions of the Garden, 'Throw down some water to us or some of what Allah has given you as provision.' They will say, 'Allah has forbidden them to the disbelievers. (Surat al-A'raf, 50)

They Will Want to be Sent Back to the World In order to Escape From Hell

They will shout out in it, 'Our Lord! Take us out! We will act rightly, differently from the way we used to act!' Did We not let you live long enough for anyone who was going to pay heed to pay heed? And did not the warner come to you? Taste it then! There is no helper for the wrongdoers. (Surah Fatir, 37)

There is No Escape From It

The evildoers will see the Fire and realise they are going to fall into it and find no way of escaping from it. (Surat al-Kahf, 53)

They Will Plead for Destruction

When they are flung into a narrow place in it, shackled together in chains, they will cry out there for destruction. 'Do not cry out today for just one destruction, cry out for many destructions!' (Surat al-Furqan, 13-14)

They will call out, 'Master, let your Lord put an end to us!' He will say, 'You will stay the way you are.' We brought you the truth but most of you hated the truth. (Surat az-Zukhruf, 77-78)

We have warned you of an imminent punishment on the Day when a man will see what he has done, and the disbeliever will say, 'Oh, if only I were dust!' (Surat an-Naba, 40)

The Kindled Fire Reaches Into Hearts

No indeed! He will be flung into the Shatterer. And what will convey to you what the Shatterer is? The kindled Fire of Allah reaching right into the heart. It is sealed in above them. In towering columns. (Surat al-Humaza, 4-9)

The Arrogant Will Enter Hell Abjectly

Your Lord says, 'Call on Me and I will answer you.Those who are too proud to worship Me will enter Hell abject.' (Surah Ghafir, 60)

Those who disbelieve will be driven to Hell in companies and when they arrive there and its gates are opened its custodians will say to them, 'Did Messengers from yourselves not come to you, reciting your Lord's Signs to you and warning you of the meeting on this Day of yours?' They will say, 'Indeed they did, but the decree of punishment is justly carried out against the disbelievers.' They will be told, 'Enter the gates of Hell and stay there timelessly, for ever. How evil is the abode of the arrogant!' (Surat az-Zumar, 71-72)

Disbelievers Will Argue With One Another

He will say, 'Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and men who have passed away before you.' Each time a nation enters, it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all gathered together in it, the last of them will say to the first, 'Our Lord, those are the ones who misguided us, so give them a double punishment in the Fire.' He will say, 'Each will receive double. But you do not know it.' (Surat al-A'raf, 38)

This! A crowd hurtling in with you. There is no welcome for them. They will certainly roast in the Fire. They will say, 'No, it is you who have no welcome. It is you who brought it upon us. What an evil place to settle!' They will say, 'Our Lord, give him who brought this on us double the punishment in the Fire!' They will say, 'How is it that we do not see some men whom we used to count among the worst of people? Did we turn them into figures of fun? Did our eyes disdain to look at them?' All this is certainly true – the bickering of the people of the Fire. (Surah Sâd, 59-64)

Arguing in it with one another, they will say, 'By Allah, we were plainly misguided when We equated you with the Lord of all the worlds. It was only the evildoers who misguided us and now we have no one to intercede for us; we do not have a single loyal friend. If only we could have another chance then we would be among the believers!' There is certainly a Sign in that, yet most of them are not believers. (Surat ash-Shuara, 96-103)

They Will Breathe in Pain and Sadness

As for those who are wretched, they will be in the Fire, where they will sigh and gasp. (Surah Hud, 106)

There Will Be Groaning

For them therein shall be groaning and therein they shall not hear. (Surat al-Anbiya, 100)

There is the Punishment of Humiliation

On the Day when those who disbelieved are exposed to the Fire: 'You dissipated the good things you had in your worldly life and enjoyed yourself in it. So today you are being repaid with the punishment of humiliation for being arrogant in the earth without any right and for being deviators.' (Surat al-Ahqaf, 20)

As for those who disobey Allah and His Messenger and overstep His limits, We will admit them into a Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. They will have a humiliating punishment. (Surat an-Nisa', 14)

Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents lies against Allah or denies His Signs, or who says, 'It has been revealed to me,' when nothing has been revealed to him, or someone who says, 'I will send down the same as Allah has sent down'? If you could only see the wrongdoers in the throes of death when the angels are stretching out their hands, saying, 'Disgorge your own selves! Today you will be repaid with the punishment of humiliation for saying something other than the truth about Allah, and being arrogant about His Signs.' (Surat al-An'am, 93)

They Will Have No Friends

Therefore here today he has no friend. (Surat al-Haqqa, 35)

Disbelievers Will be Dragged Along the Ground

No indeed! If he does not desist, We will drag him by the forelock, a lying, sinful forelock. Let him call his attendants. (Surat al-'Alaq, 15-17)

On the Day that they are dragged face-first into the Fire: 'Taste the scorching touch of Saqar!' (Surat al-Qamar, 48)

When they have shackles and chains around their necks and are dragged along the ground. (Surah Ghafir, 71)

The Prayers of Disbelievers are not Answered

Those in the Fire will say to the custodians of Hell, 'Call on your Lord to make the punishment less for us for just one day.' They will ask, 'Did your Messengers not bring you the Clear Signs?' They will answer, 'Yes.' They will say, 'Then you call!' But the calling of the disbelievers only goes astray. (Surah Ghafir, 49-50)

They will say, 'Our Lord, our miserable destiny overpowered us. We were misguided people. Our Lord, remove us from it! Then if we revert again, we will definitely be wrongdoers.' He will say, 'Slink away into it and do not speak to Me. There was a group of My servants who said, "Our Lord, we believe, so forgive us and have mercy on us. You are the Best of the Merciful." But you made a mockery of them so that they made you forget to remember Me while you were laughing at them. (Surat al-Mu'minun, 106-110)

They Will be Flung down on Their Faces into the Fire

Those who perform bad actions will be flung head first into the Fire: 'Are you being repaid for anything other than what you did?' (Surat an-Naml, 90)

They Will Disown Each Other and Will Cut All Their Ties Asunder

When those who were followed disown those who followed them, and they see the punishment, and the connection between them is cut, those who followed will say, 'If only we could have another chance, we would disown them just as they have disowned us.' In that way Allah will show them their actions as a cause of anguish and remorse for them. They will never emerge from the Fire. (Surat al-Baqara, 166-167)

They Will Feel Bitter Remorse

They will say on the Day their faces are rolled over in the Fire, 'If only we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!' And they will say, 'Our Lord, we obeyed our masters and great men and they misguided us from the Way. Our Lord, give them double the punishment and curse them many times over!' (Surat al-Ahzab, 66-68)

If only you could see when they are standing before the Fire and saying, 'Oh! If only we could be sent back again, we would not deny the Signs of our Lord and we would be among the believers.' (Surat al-An'am, 27)

They will say, 'Yes indeed, a warner did come to us but we denied him and said, "Allah has sent nothing down.You are just greatly misguided."' They will say, 'If only we had really listened and used our intellect, we would not have been Companions of the Blaze.' Then they will acknowledge their wrong actions. Away with the Companions of the Blaze! (Surat al-Mulk, 9-11)

Arguing in it with one another, they will say, 'By Allah, we were plainly misguided when We equated you with the Lord of all the worlds. It was only the evildoers who misguided us and now we have no one to intercede for us; we do not have a single loyal friend. If only we could have another chance then we would be among the believers!' There is certainly a Sign in that, yet most of them are not believers. (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 96-103)

And that Day Hell is produced, that Day man will remember; but how will the remembrance help him? He will say, 'Oh! If only I had prepared in advance for this life of mine!' (Surat al-Fajr, 23-24)

They Will Want to Trample One Another Under Their Feet

Those who disbelieved say, 'Our Lord, show us those jinn and men who misguided us and we will place them beneath our feet so that they will be among the lowest of the low.' (Surah Fussilat, 29 )

They Will be Bundled into Hell

They will be bundled into it head first, they and the misled. (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 94)

They Will be Abject and Frustrated in Their Abasement

You will see them as they are exposed to it, abject in their abasement, glancing around them furtively. Those who believe will say, 'Truly the losers are those who lose themselves and their families on the Day of Rising.' The wrongdoers are in an everlasting punishment. (Surat ash-Shura, 45)

PUNISHMENT IN THE WORLD

They Suffer Misfortunes in the World

Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year? But still they do not turn back. They do not pay heed. (Surat at-Tawba, 126)

So a visitation from your Lord came upon it while they slept. (Surat al-Qalam, 19)

They are in Anguish

You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of their brothers, when they are going on journeys or military expeditions, 'If they had only been with us, they would not have died or been killed,' so that Allah can make that anguish for them in their hearts. It is Allah Who gives life and causes to die. Allah sees what you do. (Surah Al 'Imran, 156)

Those who followed will say, 'If only we could have another chance, we would disown them just as they have disowned us.' In that way Allah will show them their actions as a cause of anguish and remorse for them. They will never emerge from the Fire. (Surat al-Baqara, 167)

They are Wretched and Miserable

On the Day it comes, no self will speak except by His permission. Some of them will be wretched and others glad. (Surah Hud, 105)

The Companions of the Left: how wretched the Companions of the Left? (Surat al-Waqi'a, 9)

But the most miserable will shun it, those who will roast in the Greatest Fire. (Surat al-A'la, 11-12)

I have warned you of a Fire which rages, in which only the most wretched will roast. (Surat al-Layl, 14-15)

Their Breasts are Strait and Narrow, and They are Defiled

When Allah desires to guide someone, He expands his breast to Islam. When He desires to misguide someone, He makes his breast narrow and constricted as if he were climbing up into the sky. That is how Allah defiles those who do not believe. (Surat al-An'am, 125)

... Then He turned towards them – He is All-Gentle, Most Merciful to them – and also towards the three who were left behind, so that when the earth became narrow for them, for all its great breadth, and their own selves became constricted for them and they realised that there was no refuge from Allah except in Him, He turned to them so that they might turn to Him. Allah is the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (Surat at-Tawba, 117-118)

They are Beguiled by False Hopes

It may be that those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims. Leave them to eat and enjoy themselves. Let false hope divert them. They will soon know. (Surat al-Hijr, 2-3)

He makes promises to them and fills them with false hopes. But what Satan promises them is nothing but delusion. (Surat an-Nisa', 120)

They will call out to them, 'Were we not with you?' They will reply, 'Indeed you were. But you made trouble for yourselves and hung back and doubted and false hopes deluded you until Allah's command arrived. The Deluder deluded you about Allah. (Surat al-Hadid, 14)

The Parting of the Sea and Drowning of Disbelievers

And when We parted the sea for you and rescued you, and drowned the people of Pharaoh while you watched. (Surat al-Baqara, 50)

Calamities from Heaven

But those who did wrong substituted words other than those they had been given. So We sent down a plague from heaven on those who did wrong because they were deviators. (Surat al-Baqara, 59)

We rained down a rain upon them. See the final fate of the evildoers! (Surat al-A'raf, 84)

It may well be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden and send down on it a fireball from the sky so that morning finds it a shifting heap of dust. (Surat al-Kahf, 40)

Drowning

He wanted to scare them from the land but We drowned him and every one of those with him. (Surat al-Isra', 103)

Then afterwards We drowned the rest. (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 120)

But they denied him so We rescued him and those with him in the Ark. And We drowned the people who denied Our Signs. They were a blind people. (Surat al-A'raf, 64)

But they denied him so We rescued him, and all those with him, in the Ark and We made them the successors and We drowned the people who denied Our Signs. See the final fate of those who were warned! (Surah Yunus, 73)

And when the people of Nuh denied the Messengers, We drowned them and made them a Sign for all mankind. We have prepared a painful punishment for the wrongdoers. (Surat al-Furqan, 37)

So We revealed to Musa, 'Strike the sea with your staff.' And it split in two, each part like a towering cliff. And We brought the others right up to it. We rescued Musa and all those who were with him. Then We drowned the rest. (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 63-66)

We helped him against the people who rejected Our Signs. They were an evil people and We drowned them, every one. (Surat al-Anbiya', 77)

So We seized him and his troops and flung them into the sea. See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (Surat al-Qasas, 40)

Then when they had provoked Our wrath, We took revenge on them and drowned every one of them. (Surat az-Zukhruf, 55)

Leave the sea divided as it is. They are an army who will be drowned.' (Surat ad-Dukhan, 24 )

So We seized him and his armies and hurled them into the sea, and he was to blame. (Surat adh-Dhariyat, 40)

Earthquakes

So the earthquake seized them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes. (Surat al-A'raf, 78)

But they denied him so the earthquake seized them and morning found them lying flattened in their homes. (Surat an-Ankebut, 37)

Drought - Lack of Crops

We seized Pharaoh's people with years of drought and scarcity of fruits so that hopefully they would pay heed. (Surat al-A'raf, 130)

Allah makes an example of a city which was safe and at peace, its provision coming to it plentifully from every side. Then it showed ingratitude for Allah's blessings so Allah made it wear the robes of hunger and fear for what it did. (Surat an-Nahl, 112)

Troublesome Animals

So We sent down on them floods, locusts, lice, frogs and blood, Signs, clear and distinct, but they proved arrogant and were an evildoing people. (Surat al-A'raf, 133)

Flood Calamities

But they turned away so We unleashed against them the flood from the great dam and exchanged their two gardens for two others containing bitter-tasting plants and tamarisk and a few lote trees. (Surah Saba', 16)

And made the earth burst forth with gushing springs. And the waters met together in a way which was decreed. (Surat al-Qamar, 12)

It was said, 'Earth, swallow up your water!' and, 'Heaven, hold back your rain!' And the water subsided and the affair was concluded and the Ark came to land on al-Judi. And it was said, 'Away with the people of the wrongdoers!' (Surah Hud, 44)

We sent Nuh to his people and he remained among them for fifty short of a thousand years; yet the Flood engulfed them while they were wrongdoers. (Surat al-'Ankabut, 14)

An Awful Blast

The Great Blast seized hold of those who did wrong and morning found them lying flattened in their homes. (Surah Hud, 67)

When Our command came, We rescued Shu'ayb and those who believed along with him by a mercy from Us. The Great Blast seized hold of those who did wrong and morning found them lying flattened in their homes. (Surah Hud, 94)

So the Great Blast seized hold of them at the break of day. (Surat al-Hijr, 73)

The Great Blast seized hold of them inexorably and We turned them into dirty scum. Away with the people of the wrongdoers! (Surat al-Mu'minun, 41)

Thamud were destroyed by the Deafening Blast. (Surat al-Haqqa, 5)

Rain of Stones of Clay

When Our command came, We turned their cities upside down and rained down on them stones of hard baked clay. (Surah Hud, 82 )

We turned the place completely upside down and rained down on them stones of hard-baked clay. (Surat al-Hijr, 74)

... to unleash upon them lumps of clay (Surat ad-Dhariyat, 33)

Storms

Do you feel secure against Him causing the shore to swallow you up or sending against you a sudden squall of stones? Then you will find no one to be your guardian. Or do you feel secure against Him taking you back into it another time and sending a violent storm against you and drowning you for your ingratitude? Then you will find no one to defend you against Us. (Surat al-Isra', 68-69)

We unleashed a howling wind against them on a day of unremitting horror. It plucked up men like uprooted stumps. (Surat al-Qamar, 19-20)

We unleashed a sudden squall of stones against all of them, except the family of Lut, who We rescued before dawn. (Surat al-Qamar, 34)

'Ad were destroyed by a savage howling wind. Allah subjected them to it for seven whole nights and eight whole days without a break. You could see the people flattened in their homes just like the hollow stumps of uprooted palms. (Surat al-Haqqa, 6-7)

Rain

We rained down a rain upon them. How evil is the rain of those who are warned! (Surat an-Naml, 58)

They themselves have come across the city which was rained on by an evil rain. Did they not then see it? But they do not expect to rise again. (Surat al-Furqan, 40)

So We opened the gates of heaven with torrential water. (Surat al-Qamar, 11)

The Punishment of the Day of Shadow

They denied him and the punishment of the Day of Shadow came down on them. It was indeed the punishment of a terrible Day. (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 189)

Lightning

If they turn away, then say, 'I warn you of a lightning-bolt like the lightning-bolt of 'Ad and of Thamud.' (Surah Fussilat, 13 )

But they spurned their Lord's command, so the thunderbolt seized them as they looked. (Surat adh-Dhariyat, 44)

As for Thamud, We guided them, but they preferred blindness to guidance. So the lightning-bolt of the punishment of humiliation seized them on account of what they earned. ' (Surah Fussilat, 17)

Heaven Brings Smoke

So be on the watch for a day when heaven brings forth a distinctive smoke, which enshrouds mankind. 'This is a painful punishment! (Surat ad-Dukhan, 10-11)

The Wind and The Cloud

When they saw it as a storm cloud advancing on their valleys they said, 'This is a storm cloud which will give us rain.' No, rather it is what you desired to hasten – a wind containing painful punishment, destroying everything at its Lord's command! When morning came you could see nothing but their dwellings. That is how We repay the people of the evildoers. (Surat al-Ahqaf, 24-25)

And also in 'Ad when We unleashed against them the barren wind, which left nothing it touched without turning it to dust. (Surat adh-Dhariyat, 41-42)

Overturning

And the Overturned City which He turned upside down. (Surat an-Najm, 53)