كَذَّبَتْ عَادٌۭ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
[The people of] ‘Ad impugned [their apostle]. So how were My punishment and warnings?
إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًۭا صَرْصَرًۭا فِى يَوْمِ نَحْسٍۢ مُّسْتَمِرٍّۢ
Indeed We unleashed upon them an icy gale on an incessantly ill-fated day,
تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍۢ مُّنقَعِرٍۢ
knocking down people as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees.
فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
So how were My punishment and warnings?!
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍۢ
Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?
كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِٱلنُّذُرِ
[The people of] Thamud denied the warnings,
فَقَالُوٓا۟ أَبَشَرًۭا مِّنَّا وَٰحِدًۭا نَّتَّبِعُهُۥٓ إِنَّآ إِذًۭا لَّفِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ وَسُعُرٍ
and they said, ‘Are we to follow a lone human from ourselves?! Indeed then we would be in error and madness.’
أَءُلْقِىَ ٱلذِّكْرُ عَلَيْهِ مِنۢ بَيْنِنَا بَلْ هُوَ كَذَّابٌ أَشِرٌۭ
‘Has the Reminder been cast upon him from among us? No, he is a self-conceited liar.’
سَيَعْلَمُونَ غَدًۭا مَّنِ ٱلْكَذَّابُ ٱلْأَشِرُ
‘Tomorrow they will know who is a self-conceited liar.
إِنَّا مُرْسِلُوا۟ ٱلنَّاقَةِ فِتْنَةًۭ لَّهُمْ فَٱرْتَقِبْهُمْ وَٱصْطَبِرْ
We are sending the She-camel as a trial for them; so watch them and be steadfast.
وَنَبِّئْهُمْ أَنَّ ٱلْمَآءَ قِسْمَةٌۢ بَيْنَهُمْ ۖ كُلُّ شِرْبٍۢ مُّحْتَضَرٌۭ
Inform them that the water is to be shared between them; each of them showing up at his turn.’
فَنَادَوْا۟ صَاحِبَهُمْ فَتَعَاطَىٰ فَعَقَرَ
But they called their companion, and he took [a knife] and hamstrung [her].
فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
So how were My punishment and My warnings?!
إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ صَيْحَةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ فَكَانُوا۟ كَهَشِيمِ ٱلْمُحْتَظِرِ
We sent against them a single Cry, and they became like the dry sticks of a corral builder.
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍۢ
Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?
English translation: Ali Quli Qarai
Two more histories. 'Ad denied and met a screaming wind on a day of continuous misfortune, which plucked men up like uprooted palm-trunks (vv.18-21), sealed by the refrain (v.22). Thamud denied the warners, scorning to follow a single man from among us and calling him an insolent liar (vv.23-25); God answers, tomorrow they will know (v.26), sends the she-camel as a test with the water shared (vv.27-28), but they called their comrade who hamstrung her (v.29); one Cry left them like the dry stalks of a pen-builder (vv.30-31), and the refrain returns (v.32).
On 'Ad the present sources agree that sarsar is a violent, screaming or cold wind and yawm nahs mustamirr a stretch of persisting calamity -- al-Mizan insists 'day' means a span (cf. 69:7's seven nights and eight days), not a weekday, and al-Tabarsi cites al-'Ayyashi from al-Baqir that it was 'a Wednesday that does not recur.' On Thamud, al-Tabarsi, al-Tusi and al-Mizan converge on the deniers' feeble premise -- that prophets should be a plural, powerful group -- and refute it: one man may bear the message though none else is fit (al-Tusi), for God best knows who is fit (al-Mizan); su'ur is glossed as blazing fire, toil, or (fittest here) madness. All identify the hamstringer as Qudar (Qidar) ibn Salif, 'the red one of Thamud,' the Arabs mistakenly saying ''the red one of 'Ad'' -- a naming consistent across al-Tabarsi, al-Tusi and al-Qummi.
al-Qummi's glosses are minimal (sarsar = cold; fitna = trial). al-Bahrani supplies two vivid strands: Wahb ibn Munabbih's folkloric portrait of the bridled 'barren wind' (seventy thousand reins, each with seventy thousand angels, released only in the measure of a ring-hole) -- rendered as attributed -- and al-Nu'mani's sermon of 'Ali from the pulpit of Kufa, drawing from they called their comrade... and he hamstrung her the lesson of collective guilt by approval (rida): though one man hamstrung her, God's punishment struck all, cross-referenced to 91:14. The six sources here are unanimous on narrative and lexicon, differing only in al-Bahrani's added hadith and al-Mizan's characteristic excursus.