Punishment
So, an earthquake/thunderbolt seized/struck them, and they lay lifeless in their homes.
7:78So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them prostrate in their dwelling-place.
11:67And the (awful) Cry overtook those who did wrong, so that morning found them prostrate in their dwellings,
15:83But the (Awful) Cry overtook them at the morning hour,
15:84And that which they were wont to count as gain availed them not.
26:158So the retribution came on them. Lo! herein is indeed a portent, yet most of them are not believers.
41:13But if they turn away, then say: I warn you of a thunderbolt like the thunderbolt (which fell of old upon the tribes) of A'ad and Thamud;
41:17And as for Thamud, We gave them guidance, but they preferred blindness to the guidance, so the bolt of the doom of humiliation overtook them because of what they used to earn.
51:44But they rebelled against their Lord's decree, and so the thunderbolt overtook them even while they gazed;
69:5As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the lightning.
91:14But they denied him, and they hamstrung her, so Allah doomed them for their sin and rased (their dwellings).