وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِىٓ ءَامَنَ يَـٰقَوْمِ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُم مِّثْلَ يَوْمِ ٱلْأَحْزَابِ Qur’an Ghafir (40:30)Waq a la alla th ee a mana y a qawmi innee akh a fu AAalaykum mithla yawmi ala h z a b i
He appeals to past history. "Have you not heard of people who lived before you?-like the generations of Noah, the 'Ad, the Thamud, and many more-who held together in sin against Allah's Preachers, but were wiped out for their sins?"
Cf. xxxviii. 11-13, and n. 4158, also xi. 5, and n. 4361.