Then the earthquake surprised them; and in the morning they were found dead on their faces in their dwellings.
So he turned away from them, and said, "O my people! I did indeed announce to you the message of my Lord: and I gave you faithful counsel, but ye love not faithful counsellors.20
We also sent Lot, when he said to his people, commit ye this filthy deed in which no creature hath gone before you?
Come ye to men, instead of women, lustfully? Ye are indeed a people given up to excess.
But the only answer of his people was to say, "Turn them out of your city, for they are men who vaunt them pure."
And we delivered him and his family, except his wife; she was of those who lingered:
And we rained a rain upon them: and see what was the end of the wicked!
And we sent to Madian21 their brother Shoaib. He said, "O my people! worship God; ye have no other God than Him: now hath a clear sign come to you from your Lord: give therefore the full in measures and weights; take from no man his chattels, and commit no disorder on the earth after it has been made so good. This will be better for you, if you will believe it.
And lay not in ambush by every road in menacing sort; nor mislead him who believeth in God, from His way, nor seek to make it crooked; and remember when ye were few and that he multiplied you, and behold what hath been the end of the authors of disorder!
And if a part of you believe in that with which I am sent, and a part of you believe not, then wait steadfastly until God shall judge between us, for He is the best of judges."