Kitab-i-Iqan/Page1/GPT4 11

And after this, the edifice of Salih emerged from the spiritual and unseen good-pleasure, inviting the servants to the enduring laws of nearness, and for a hundred years or more he commanded the divine orders and forbade the prohibitions, but it bore no fruit and no effect appeared. And he chose to be absent several times, even though that eternal beauty was calling the people to nothing but the city of divine unity. As he says: "And to Thamud (We sent) their brother Salih. He said: O my people! serve Allah, you have no god other than Him" to the end of the verse: "They said: O Salih! you were one amongst us in whom great expectations were placed before this; do you forbid us that we should serve what our fathers served and we are surely in disquieting doubt with respect to that to which you invite us." And it granted no benefit until they all returned to the fire with a single cry.