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Article: Hud
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Hud , a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. The Qur'an mentions that their incredulity was punished by a decimating "sterilizing wind" (
ar-rih al-aqim
). While some traditions support the etymological identification of Hud ...