Houd

In the Coran, Hûd is the Prophète of the Arab tribe of the `AD, great-grandchildren of Noah. Its city is called Iram. Hûd is sometimes regarded as the patriarch Héber of the Bible (descendant Sem), if not it is unknown Torah.

Hûd is the title of the Sourate XI of the Coran.

The sourate Hûd is a kind of plea, where Allah promises the worst punishments with those which question its word, and with those which claim evidence of the truth of its dires. Coran quotes then Moïse, Noah, Hûd prophet of the `AD, Sâlih prophet of the Thamûd, Abraham, Lût, Chu `ayb prophet of the Madian. Each one of these prophets, Mohammed including was challenged by its people (No one is not prophet in its country). But God will be able to punish these rebellious people by exterminating them with the need.

The `Ads refuse to be subjected to the injunction of Hûd. They are subjected to a cruel dryness. Qaïl, their chief, decides to make a sacrifice with God for the return of the rain. It is already too late, because God decided to punish `AD for their inaccuracy. Qaïl, which was inaccurate, led the victims on the top of a mountain to sacrifice them itself. Then turning its face towards the sky, he says: “O God of the sky I ask you for rain for my people: would be our guard”. At the same moment three clouds appeared; the first was red, the second black, and the third white. These clouds a voice left which said: “Which do you want to see moving towards your people?” Qaïl is said in itself: “If this red cloud went towards my people, it would not spread rain, in the same way the white cloud a whole lasted day, it would not leave there rain, it is the black cloud which contains the rain”. Then Qaïl says aloud: “I ask that this black cloud go towards my people”. The cloud was held stopped above the head Adites, and the sterile wind that it contained left there, as it is known as in the Coran: We made burst our power on Adites, when we sent against them a sterile wind.

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