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and like the people of Aad, they were steeped in pride.

Allah had blessed them with both strength and skills

and they hewed homes out of rocks on mountainous hills.

But the skills of their forefathers were not confined to homes,
they carved elaborate idols out of the stones

and worshipped them with greatest respect
garlanding them with flowers around their necks.

Their worshippers had no sense at all

for the idols could neither harm, nor benefit, not yet hear their call,
generation after generation never questioned their devotion

even though it was evident they stood without motion.