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The Qur'an calls the place where the people of 'Ad lived [[al-Ahqaf]], and mention Hud (a) the brother of 'Ad, when he warned his people at Ahqaf ([[Qur'an 46]]:21). "al-Ahqaf" means: dunes which pile up by the blow of wind in the deserts" and the land of 'Ad was called al-Ahqaf because it was a dune of such nature. Exegetes have considered al-ahqaf a region in the south of Arabia. However, there are disagreements on its accurate location. [['Allama Tabataba'i]] and [[al-Tabrisi]] believed that al-Ahqaf was a place between [[Yemen]] and [[Oman]] which is a dune now. In Sura al-Ahqaf which meant to warn [[polytheists]] about a painful punishment. A part of the story of 'Ad is mentioned as an example of punished polytheists. In ''[[Tafsir-i Nimuni]]'', [[Ayatollah]] [[Makarem Shirazi]] believed that the name of Sura al-Ahqaf is adopted from the story of 'Ad and their place of living.