Kisah Kehidupan Nabi Hud AS (Eber) Versi Bahasa Inggris

Prophet Hud (Eber) was a prophet of ancient Arabia mentioned in the
Qur’an. The eleventh chapter of the Quran, Hud, is named after him,
though the narrative of Hud comprises only a small portion of the
chapter. Hud has sometimes been identified with Eber, an ancestor of
the Israelites who is mentioned in the Old Testament.

He is said to have been a subject of a mulk (Arabic: مُـلـك‎, kingdom)
named after its founder, ʿĀd, a fourth-generation descendant of
Prophet Noah (his father being Uz, the son of Aram, who was the son of
Shem and a son of Noah. he other tribes claimed to be present at this
time in Arabia, were the Thamud, Jurhum, Tasam, Jadis, Amim, Midian,
Amalek Imlaq, Jasim, Qahtan, Banu Yaqtan and others.

The Quran gives the location of Ad as being Al-Aḥqaf (Arabic:
الأَحـقَـاف‎, "The Sandy Plains," or "the Wind-curved Sand-hills"). It
is believed to have been in the southern part of the Arabian
Peninsula, possibly in eastern Yemen and/or western Oman. In the
1980s, a settlement was discovered and thought to be Ubar, which is
thought to be mentioned in the Qur'an as Iram dhat al-Imad (Arabic:
إِرَم ذَات الـعِـمَـاد‎, Iram of the Pillars), and may have been the
capital of Ad. An alternative translation of Iram dhat al-Imad is
"Iram of the tentpoles" and it is uncertain whether the name
identifies a city or a tribe.

The people of Ad were extremely powerful and wealthy and they built
countless buildings and monuments to show their power. However, the Ad
people's wealth ultimately proved to be their failure, as they became
arrogant and forsook God and began to adopt idols for worship,
including three idols named Samd, Samud and Hara. Prophet Hud (Pbuh),
even in childhood, remained consistent in prayer to God. It is related
through exegesis that Hud's mother, a pious woman who had seen great
visions at her son's birth, was the only person who encouraged Hud in
his worship. Thus, the Lord raised up Hud as a prophet for the Ad
people.

When Hud started preaching and invited them to the worship of only the
true God and when he told them to repent for their past sins and ask
for mercy and forgiveness, the Ad people began to revile him and
wickedly began to mock God's message. Hud's story epitomizes the
prophetic cycle common to the early prophets mentioned in the Quran:
the prophet is sent to his people to tell them to worship God only and
tells them to acknowledge that it is God who is the provider of their
blessings.