And when this is the place of turning towards contemplating the admonitions of the Qur'an, Thamud was the greatest admonition after 'Aad due to their shout that was outside of the covenants, depicting the Hour with its two breaths, the deadly one and then the life-giving one. And he mentioned their action in the feminine form as a reference to the lowliness of their ambitions and the lowliness of their actions, indicating that whoever disbelieves will perish along the lines of the response for whoever might say, distancing himself from disbelief after what occurred in the previous two stories of punishment: 'Thamud denied,' meaning the people of Salih, 'the warnings,' the warnings and all the warners, because they are one law. Then he explained that and followed it with the saying, indicating with the pronoun that the direct agents of this disbelief are their men, so that it should not be assumed that they are only women.