The Poets
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.[26:123]
The ’Ad (people) rejected the apostles.

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* v.123 : See n. 1040 to vii. 65 for the ’Ad people and their location. Here the emphasis is on the fact that they were materialists believing in brute force, and felt secure in their fortresses and resources, but were found quite helpless when Allah’s Message came and they rejected it.