The Saudis (royals) are back to the time of jahiliyah, likened to the time of the Thamud people.
"With the advance of material civilisation, the Thamud people became godless and arrogant. Their warner and prophet was Salih, and the crisis in their history is connected with the story of a she-camel.
i) she was a sign or symbol , which the Prophet Salih, used for a warning to the haughty oppressors of the poor'; 2) there was scarcity of water, and the arrogant or privileged classes tried to prevent the access of the poor or their cattle to the springs, while Salih intervened on their behalf; 3) like water, pasture was considered a free gift of nature in this spacious earth of Allah; 4) this particular she-camel was made a test case to see if the arrogant ones would come to reason; 5) the arrogant ones instead of yielding to the reasonable rights of the people, hamstrung the poor she-camel and slew her, probably secretly; the cup of their iniquities were full, and the Thamud people were destroyed by a dreadful earthquake which threw them prone on the ground and buried them with their houses and their fine buildings." - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
(OSTB)
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