Here we receive more details about the people of Shebä, as to their punishment and end.

      Allah gave them every chance, and flourished their land, and they built many villages and towns in their way to the large cities. They could easily and safely travel to the blessed lands of Syria, Palestine, and Jordan; or to Sanaa and Maärib in Yemen.

      Their way for journeys was safe and secure in night and day, and their trade with high profit and income. They were a happy and prosperous people enjoying the blessings of their Gracious Lord.

      Usually Man rebels, when he finds himself self-satisfied. So long as they remained true to their virtues, and observed the commandments of God, they lived a happy and successful life. But, when arrogance, jealousy, and selfishness, caused them to fall in the snare of Satan; everything changed!

      The rainfall reduced. Trade routes became insecure. They began to worship the demon of cupidity. Their main object of life became wealth. Avarice, greed, and many inordinate desires seized them. They became of such materialists that, behind every physical endeavour they sought riches, and their material vain desires.

      They prayed to God to lengthen their journeys so that the poor class of their people could not go on with them side by side. The higher class of them did not like the lower class, to travel as long a distance that rich ones could provide, as if travelling had turned to an honour and sources of income.

      They thus oppressed themselves, and therefore their lands were destroyed, and they were compelled to travel to far distances, to find some means of sustenance! And so did they gradually pass out of history, that they became bywords, and taken proverbially as a type of unfortunate people in a bad sense. Their story and doom proves that there is no happiness and prosperity, unless it is used for the highest service of God, and that all the physical phenomenon have some moral and spiritual power that control them.