- xii And that He it is Who annihilated the former tribe of Aad. (They were men of intellect but refused to establish the Divine System (7:65). A wrong system, however smartly run, is bound to collapse)
And indeed, it is HU who destroyed the former Aad.
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
And that it was He Who annihilated the ancient most powerful earlier generations of the people of 'Ad -the first Adites- and raised their cities to the ground