1848.] and Ghassdly 's History of the Prophets. 447 



coming to him in order to express their wants, and that they would 

 believe in God hut they did not believe. The wind came and took 

 every one of them up from the ground and carried him up into the 

 air from whence he fell to the ground and died. They were strewed 

 over the ground like trees, " as if they were palm trees thrown on the 

 ground ;" " they are like the roots of torn up palm trees," whoever fled 

 was overtaken by the wind thrown to the ground and killed. The 

 women had remained in their houses, they were equally raised from the 

 ground and struck against the walls until they were dead. This wind 

 lasted a whole week. " God caused the wind to assail them seven 

 nights and days successively." Not a soul of them remained alive 

 except Hud and those who believed in him : they suffered no harm 

 from the wind. "When we sent the punishment we saved in our 

 mercy Hud and those who believed, we saved them from the heavy 

 punishment." The three men sent to Makkah were during all this 

 time in that city feasting and remained ignorant of the fate of their 

 tribe, until a man of another tribe who had passed the valley of the 

 'Adites and had seen them, arrived at Makkah and give intelligence 

 that they had all perished except Hud and those who believed. The 

 two believers rejoiced, but Qayl, who was an unbeliever, was sorry ; he 

 got up and ascended the hill of Mina ; Loqman and Marthad accom- 

 panied him, and said to him, believe in Hud, to avoid thy destruction. 

 He answered, I have no object in life since my friends are dead, and 

 raising his head he exclaimed : O God of heaven, if it is true that my 

 tribe is destroyed, destroy me as well. A wind came which took him 

 up from the top of the mountain, threw him on the ground, and killed 

 him. The two men who believed in Hud heard a voice which proceeded 

 from the hill : " Whatever each of you wisheth ye shall have." Marthad 

 b. Sa'd said, I wish that I should have a sufficient quantity of wheat to 

 be able to afford to eat wheaten bread all my life. He obtained it ; he 

 descended from the hill and went to Makkah where he remained till he 

 died. Loqman said, I wish to have a long life. He heard a voice, 

 saying : However long thou mayest live thou must die in the end. He 

 answered, grant it ! The voice said thou shalt have the life of seven 

 vultures ! He also settled at Makkah. He used to visit the top of a 

 hill where the vultures laid their eggs and watch the chickens. When 

 they came from the egg he took them away and took care of them. 



