And there was in the city,
Nine men,
From the sons' of the chiefs',
Who created torment and strife,
In the land,
And even though Salih came,
With the warning of Allah's, merciful stand,
They would not reform,
Or offer any hand.
They swore, One to the other,
A secret attack,
In the darkness of night,
When his household was sleeping tight,
" And when we complete our set task,
We will say to his relatives'-near,
We our not the witnessess,
Of the destruction that betook,
Salih and his sent Book,
And verily, we are of truthful-folk ".
So they plotted and planned,
While they percieved not,
While We' did also plot,
Then their plight ended,
In the destruction of their nation-still,
All of the town and state,
Did go,
And their houses' layed in utter ruin,
For wrongness they partook of delight,
And verily of the people who did right,
We saved them from the destruction of the ruins' of the wrongness-plight.
So they plotted and planned,
To kill Salih in the night,
While we too, plotted and planned,
While they percieved not,
From the distance afar.
Three days' after their wicked unfearing,
Salih's warning came about,
To strike the wrong people out,
Thunderbolts', filled the air,
Followed by Earthquakes'; that did shake,
The entire land.
The land shock with fear,
Under God's Holy Might,
And Allah did destroy all with in it,
Apart from Salih and his following-folk,
For they were truly God-Fearing-Folk.
And with one Holy-Strike,
The people' were struck with God's -Holy-Might.
And their buildings' did crumble,
And the wrong people were cleaned,
Before God, and his all seeing screen.
And the good people from Salih's-folk,
Did remain in the land,
Until the descent of Allah's last messenger sent,
And Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) past by their houses',
On his way through the land,
And stopped to drink from the very spot,
Where the prophet Salih's-folk, did flock.
And through his stay,
They took him to the place where the bad people did drink,
And gather,
And he did say,
Do not enter upon where the bad people did stay,
For Allah, might inflict you with sickness of their day.
