The tribe of Themoud treated the threatenings as lies:
And they said, "Shall we follow a single man from among ourselves? Then verily should we be in error and in folly.
To him alone among us is the office of warning entrusted? No! he is an impostor, an insolent person."
To-morrow shall they learn who is the impostor, the insolent.
"For we will send the she-camel to prove them: do thou mark them well, O
Saleh, and be patient:
And foretell them that their waters shall1 be divided between themselves and her, and that every draught shall come by turns to them."
But they called to their comrade, and he took a knife and ham-strung her.
And how great was my vengeance and my menance!
We sent against them a single shout; and they became like the dry sticks of the fold-builders.
Easy have we made the Koran for warning-but, is there any one who receives the warning?