6 Preface أَلَم تَرَ كَيفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعادٍYusuf AliSeest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the ‘Ād (people),—1For ‘Ād see n. to 7:65. They seem to have possessed an ancient civilisation, which succumbed when they persistently broke God’s law.