37 Preface وَقَومَ نوحٍ لَمّا كَذَّبُوا الرُّسُلَ أَغرَقناهُم وَجَعَلناهُم لِلنّاسِ آيَةً ۖ وَأَعتَدنا لِلظّالِمينَ عَذابًا أَليمًاYusuf AliAnd the people of Noah,- when they rejected the messengers, We drowned them, and We made them as a Sign for mankind;1 and We have prepared for (all) wrong-doers a grievous Penalty;-The stories of Noah, of the prophets of ‘Ād and Thamūd (and of other prophets), in the reactions of their communities to their teaching are told in 26:105-159, below. Here they are just mentioned to illustrate how little respect past ages had for their prophets and teachers of Truth. But God’s Truth did not suffer: it was the blind rejecters of spiritual Truth who were wiped out.