WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:29.980 中文字幕志愿者 李宗盛 00:30.000 --> 00:59.980 字幕志愿者 李宗盛 01:00.000 --> 01:12.620 Has the news of those who came before them not reached them, 01:12.760 --> 01:15.300 the people of Nu and Ad and Thamud, 01:15.900 --> 01:19.140 and the people of Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madhyan 01:19.140 --> 01:20.800 and the overturned cities? 01:22.380 --> 01:25.440 Their messengers brought them the clear signs. 01:25.440 --> 01:27.680 God did not wrong them. 01:28.300 --> 01:30.440 Rather, they wronged themselves. 01:30.440 --> 01:51.660 The Great Pyramid 01:51.660 --> 01:55.540 Egypt, 2600 BC 01:55.540 --> 02:01.000 Stonehenge, England, 2000 BC 02:01.000 --> 02:09.000 Angkor Wat, Cambodia, 1150 AD 02:09.000 --> 02:16.740 Machu Picchu, Peru, 1470 AD 02:16.740 --> 02:46.720 What you are seeing are the imposing visions of the world of the world of the world of the world of the world of the world of the world. 02:46.720 --> 02:48.960 And the remains of some old civilizations. 02:57.460 --> 03:07.880 Throughout world history, a great many very different civilizations have grown up, ruled for a while, and then faded away when their time came. 03:07.880 --> 03:16.560 The level of craftsmanship reached by some of them is enough to amaze us, even today. 03:17.560 --> 03:30.400 Yet these civilizations, which may have approached and perhaps even surpassed today's levels of mathematical, astronomical, medical, and architectural knowledge, no longer exist. 03:30.400 --> 03:41.280 The knowledge they had, the unbelievable riches they acquired, their magnificent palaces and temples, now stand empty and in ruins. 03:41.280 --> 03:56.780 Despite all their power and wealth, they disappeared off the face of the earth. 03:56.780 --> 04:02.780 We now know that some of them were destroyed as the result of terrible disasters. 04:03.580 --> 04:07.620 In this film, we shall be examining just what happened to them. 04:07.620 --> 04:15.960 We shall also see how these destructive events were actually divine retribution, news of which is given in the Quran. 04:17.060 --> 04:23.620 We shall see that the peoples in question were destroyed because of their rebellion against God and their excesses. 04:24.980 --> 04:28.420 And archaeological discoveries provide the evidence for this. 04:28.420 --> 04:50.980 The people of Lut denied the warnings. 04:51.520 --> 04:54.980 We unleashed a sudden scrawl of stones against all of them. 04:58.420 --> 05:14.600 The land of Anatolia, the plains of Mesopotamia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the continent of Africa have witnessed the births of different civilizations since the beginning of time. 05:16.180 --> 05:21.000 God sent messengers to them throughout history and called them to his path. 05:21.000 --> 05:32.240 Those people who refused to believe the messengers sent to them, who tried to kill or exile them, were all destroyed. 05:34.000 --> 05:39.140 One of these civilizations was found within the borders of the present-day state of Israel. 05:39.960 --> 05:44.720 This people who settled by the shores of the Dead Sea were the people of Lut. 05:44.720 --> 05:59.720 According to the Quran, homosexuality was so rife among these people, to whom the Prophet Lut had been sent, that its like had never been seen before. 05:59.720 --> 06:11.400 When their brother Lut said to them, Will you not do your duty? 06:12.520 --> 06:16.760 I am a faithful messenger to you, so heed God and obey me. 06:17.880 --> 06:20.600 I do not ask you for any wage for it. 06:21.100 --> 06:25.400 My wage is the responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds. 06:25.400 --> 06:33.960 Of all beings, do you lie with males, leaving the wives God has created for you? 06:34.560 --> 06:37.560 You are a people who have overstepped the limits. 06:37.560 --> 06:55.780 When Lut told them to renounce their perversions and brought them God's commands, they denied him, rejected that he was a prophet, and continued with their perverted ways. 06:57.000 --> 07:01.560 In return for that behavior, they were destroyed in a terrible catastrophe. 07:01.560 --> 07:31.540 The end of the day of the day, they were destroyed in a terrible catastrophe. 07:31.540 --> 08:01.520 The end of the day, they were destroyed in a terrible catastrophe. 08:01.520 --> 08:31.500 中文字幕志愿者 杨茜茜 08:31.520 --> 09:01.500 中文字幕志愿者 杨茜茜 09:01.520 --> 09:31.500 中文字幕志愿者 杨茜茜 09:31.500 --> 09:41.960 According to the Quran, angels came to Lut and gave him this warning the night before the disaster. 09:41.960 --> 09:46.280 They said, 09:46.280 --> 10:16.280 10:16.280 --> 10:46.280 10:46.280 --> 10:55.560 When scientists uncover Sodom's fiery end, the British geologist Graham Harris was one of the scientists to discover powerful evidence on the subject. 10:56.360 --> 11:03.880 According to Dr. Harris, Sodom had been built on the shores of the Dead Sea and traded in the asphalt found in the region. 11:03.880 --> 11:11.480 This tarry substance was used in ancient times to waterproof boats and to hold stones together in buildings. 11:12.860 --> 11:19.020 Yet this settlement area, right by the Dead Sea, also stood on very unstable land. 11:19.020 --> 11:25.380 This was the point where two tectonic plates moving in opposite directions met. 11:28.300 --> 11:30.380 This was an earthquake zone. 11:30.380 --> 11:48.380 The layers of lava and basalt unearthed during the excavations are the strongest proof that there had been a volcanic eruption, an earthquake here. 11:48.380 --> 12:07.560 The event described in the Quran in the words, rain down on them stones of hard-baked clay was in all probability a volcanic eruption. 12:07.560 --> 12:23.200 The event described in the same verse in the words, when our command came, we turned their cities upside down, may well refer to the ruptures and destruction caused by the earthquake. 12:24.700 --> 12:29.660 Under the Dead Sea shores lie large deposits of flammable methane pockets. 12:29.660 --> 12:33.960 The earthquake would have set these in motion and ignited them. 12:37.100 --> 12:44.240 The ground would have turned into a quicksand and a massive landslide would have swept the city into the water. 12:59.660 --> 13:24.640 A series of scientific experiments at Cambridge University confirmed this theory. 13:24.640 --> 13:33.260 Scientists built a replica of the region in which the people of Lut had settled in the laboratory and induced an artificial earthquake. 13:36.260 --> 13:43.520 As had been expected, the earth was inundated and the miniature houses slid into it and were buried there. 13:54.640 --> 14:12.260 These archaeological and experimental discoveries reveal one important fact. 14:12.260 --> 14:23.160 The people of Lut discussed in the Quran really lived in the past and were punished for their perversions by a disaster sent by God. 14:23.160 --> 14:49.900 All the evidence for that disaster has today been revealed and is in complete agreement with the account given in the Quran. 14:49.900 --> 14:57.000 Once again, the fact is revealed that the Quran is the word of God. 15:19.900 --> 15:39.780 So the great blast seized hold of them at the break of day. 15:41.000 --> 15:47.340 We turned them completely upside down and rained down on them stones of hard-baked clay. 15:47.340 --> 15:51.840 There are certainly signs in that for the discerning. 15:51.840 --> 16:18.860 Mount Vesuvius is a symbol of Italy and especially of the city of Naples. 16:18.860 --> 16:25.860 The volcano is also known as the mountain of misfortune. 16:25.860 --> 16:27.860 The volcano is also known as the mountain of misfortune. 16:27.860 --> 16:29.860 There is a good reason for this. 16:29.860 --> 16:36.860 A city built on its slopes experienced a similar catastrophe to that which hit the city of Sodom. 16:36.860 --> 16:45.860 The name of the city destroyed on account of its rebellion against God and its perversions was Pompeii. 16:45.860 --> 16:58.860 These pictures portray what was once the busiest street in Pompeii. 16:58.860 --> 17:11.860 The city was a holiday destination of the high society of the Roman Empire and a symbol of wealth. 17:11.860 --> 17:24.860 The architecture of the houses was breathtaking. 17:24.860 --> 17:27.860 The people of Pompeii were very wealthy. 17:27.860 --> 17:28.860 The people of Pompeii were very wealthy. 17:28.860 --> 17:39.860 Yet, instead of giving thanks to God for that wealth, they turned into a nation of deviance and gave themselves over to debauchery and the city became a den of iniquity. 17:39.860 --> 17:50.860 Pompeii was best known for two things. 17:50.860 --> 17:57.860 One was the gladiatorial combat organized in the huge arena solely for the amusement of the rich. 17:57.860 --> 18:09.860 That savage spectacle had only one rule, to fight to the death. 18:09.860 --> 18:18.860 The second largest arena in the empire after the Colosseum in Rome was that of Pompeii. 18:18.860 --> 18:25.860 In the early years of Christianity, that arena witnessed the deaths of countless numbers of people, 18:25.860 --> 18:29.860 solely because of their belief in God. 18:37.860 --> 18:44.860 This unbelievable savagery came to be the greatest form of entertainment for the people of Pompeii, 18:44.860 --> 18:48.860 whose consciences had withered and died. 18:48.860 --> 19:00.860 The second main feature of Pompeii was that it was the scene of the most worthless implementation of the system of slavery, 19:00.860 --> 19:03.860 which prevailed throughout the Roman Empire. 19:03.860 --> 19:08.860 For a slave to disobey an order, there could be only one end. 19:12.860 --> 19:16.860 They were treated as worthless objects, bought for money. 19:20.860 --> 19:25.860 Yet the real oppression of the slaves by the nobles of Pompeii was something different. 19:25.860 --> 19:28.860 They were forced into prostitution. 19:28.860 --> 19:38.860 The perverted homosexual relations between themselves among the nobles ended in the rape of slaves no older than children. 19:38.860 --> 19:44.860 In short, their wealth had made the people of Pompeii degenerate, 19:44.860 --> 19:48.860 and led them into a morass of perversion and deviancy. 19:48.860 --> 19:51.860 They had no idea what was about to happen. 19:51.860 --> 19:53.860 They had no idea what was about to happen. 19:53.860 --> 19:55.060 They had no idea what was about to happen to 19:55.860 --> 19:56.860 him for the image of Pompeii. 19:56.860 --> 19:57.860 They had no idea what was about to happen. 19:58.860 --> 19:59.860 In أي andor오� Janeiro had literally been here in San Andri 19:59.860 --> 20:03.560 a teacher however, 20:03.860 --> 20:04.860 had a midterm use of a lot to take him on. 20:04.860 --> 20:05.860 It just seemed love to be a little bit for us, 20:06.860 --> 20:09.860 he said that he wanted to prepare for his brilliant creation. 20:09.860 --> 20:19.860 优优独播剧场——YoYo Television Series Exclusive 20:19.860 --> 20:25.860 The disaster was so terrible that this huge marble bathtub from one of the baths 20:25.860 --> 20:34.860 smashed into the opposite wall with unbelievable force, leaving a huge deep scar. 20:34.860 --> 20:40.860 In an instant, the lava from Vesuvius wiped Pompeii off the face of the earth. 20:40.860 --> 20:46.860 That disaster remained concealed under the ground for the next 2,000 years. 20:46.860 --> 21:07.860 In the first quarter of the 20th century, archaeologists began to unearth the remains from under tons of volcanic rock. 21:07.860 --> 21:14.860 What they encountered was a piece of history 2,000 years old, totally unspoiled. 21:14.860 --> 21:33.860 The disaster had struck the people of Pompeii so suddenly that everything stayed just as it had been 2,000 years ago, as if time had stood still. 21:33.860 --> 21:40.860 Despite the terrible eruption of Vesuvius, nobody fled, but just turned into stone where they stood. 21:40.860 --> 21:53.860 The faces and even the teeth of some of these bodies remained completely intact. 21:53.860 --> 22:00.860 The thing they almost all had in common was their expression of surprise and terror. 22:00.860 --> 22:07.860 A family eating together were petrified at that exact moment. 22:07.860 --> 22:12.860 Even the food on the table has been preserved. 22:12.860 --> 22:17.860 The most extraordinary side of the tragedy is this. 22:17.860 --> 22:38.860 How was it that thousands of people waited for death to come and claim them, seeing and hearing nothing? 22:38.860 --> 22:51.860 That dimension of the catastrophe shows that the destruction of Pompeii closely resembles the incidents of destruction recounted in the Koran. 22:51.860 --> 22:59.860 When such incidents are described in the Koran, it is revealed how people were always struck down in an instant where they stood. 23:08.860 --> 23:18.860 It was but one great blast and they were extinct. 23:18.860 --> 23:23.860 We sent a single blast against them and they were just like a Thatcher's reeds. 23:38.860 --> 23:51.860 And they were destroyed by a savage howling wind. 23:51.860 --> 23:57.860 God subjected them to it for seven whole nights and eight whole days without a break. 23:57.860 --> 24:04.860 You could see the people flattened in their homes, just like the hollow stumps of uprooted palms. 24:04.860 --> 24:15.860 Do you see any remnant of them left? 24:15.860 --> 24:21.860 The history of the Arabian Peninsula goes back a very long way. 24:21.860 --> 24:30.860 Countless legends of the desert-dwelling Bedouins have come down from the past to the present day. 24:30.860 --> 24:35.860 One of these legends speaks of a city built among the empty dunes of the desert. 24:35.860 --> 24:44.860 Despite the lethal land around it, the city was rich and fertile. 24:44.860 --> 24:47.860 The people of the city enjoy great well-being. 24:47.860 --> 25:00.860 However, according to the story, the people of the city committed a great sin and suffered a great punishment for it. 25:00.860 --> 25:18.860 A horrible sandstorm annihilated them as if they had never existed. 25:18.860 --> 25:47.860 Archaeological research in Oman in the south of the Arabian Peninsula has revealed that this tale is true, not a myth at all, and that the people mentioned in the early sources are the people of Ad mentioned in the Koran. 25:47.860 --> 26:02.860 It was the amateur archaeologist Nicholas Clapp who discovered this lost city. 26:02.860 --> 26:15.860 An Arabophile and a winning documentary filmmaker, Clapp had encountered a very interesting book during his studies into Arab history. 26:15.860 --> 26:26.860 This book was called Arabia Felix, written by the British researcher Bertrand Thomas in 1932. 26:26.860 --> 26:40.860 Arabia Felix was the name given by the Romans to the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula and meant Fortunate Arabia. 26:40.860 --> 26:47.860 The reason for this was that the inhabitants of that region in ancient times used to be known as the most fortunate people of the age. 26:47.860 --> 26:49.860 But why was that? 26:49.860 --> 27:18.860 The people of the region produced and served by the people of the region. 27:18.860 --> 27:21.860 而产业製了和货带的香蕉, 27:21.860 --> 27:24.860 一种香蕉的香蕉的香蕉。 27:28.860 --> 27:32.860 香蕉的香蕉是大利益在古代的社会 27:32.860 --> 27:36.860 而是使用了一种香蕉在各种各样的祭祷。 27:36.860 --> 27:38.860 这香蕉的香蕉的香蕉, 27:38.860 --> 27:40.860 一种香蕉的香蕉, 27:40.860 --> 27:42.860 一种香蕉的香蕉。 27:48.860 --> 27:54.860 在他的文章中, 27:54.860 --> 27:56.860 一种蕉的蕉的蕉的蕉, 27:56.860 --> 28:00.860 他说他有发现了一种幸运的人物在其中的地方。 28:00.860 --> 28:02.860 这一屋是一种座的城市, 28:02.860 --> 28:04.860 一种座的城市, 28:04.860 --> 28:06.860 一种座的城市, 28:06.860 --> 28:08.860 一种座的城市。 28:08.860 --> 28:10.860 在一种座的城市, 28:10.860 --> 28:12.860 一种座的城市, 28:12.860 --> 28:14.860 一种座的城市, 28:14.860 --> 28:16.860 一种座的城市, 28:16.860 --> 28:22.860 他的录像 Tony Cr poss igual于中国87年式算出生来起 Boobos了。 28:22.860 --> 28:30.860 Thomas was greatly interested in this matter, but died before he could complete his research. 28:30.860 --> 28:39.860 Nicholas Clapp studied Thomas' writings and came to believe in the existence of the lost city mentioned in the book. 28:39.860 --> 28:58.860 Wasting no time, he embarked on his own research. 28:58.860 --> 29:02.860 Clapp asked Nassad to scan the region by satellite. 29:02.860 --> 29:12.860 In the pictures taken from space appeared the traces of a number of tracks, invisible to the naked eye from the ground. 29:12.860 --> 29:19.860 Clapp then compared these pictures to old maps and came up with the result he had been expecting. 29:19.860 --> 29:26.860 The tracks in the old maps were the same as those in the pictures taken from space. 29:26.860 --> 29:40.860 Where these tracks joined was a wide area that was realized to have been an ancient settlement. 29:40.860 --> 29:47.860 The time had come for Nicholas Clapp to set off on his travels. 30:10.860 --> 30:15.860 It was a long journey and one full of adventure. 30:15.860 --> 30:23.860 As it made its way through the endless dunes, the research team from time to time made use of the latest technology. 30:29.860 --> 30:35.860 Yet there were also times in that wild place where technology was of no use. 30:35.860 --> 30:42.860 Eventually, Clapp and his team arrived at the historic remains they hoped would be those of the city of Ubar. 30:54.860 --> 31:00.860 From the moment the ruins were discovered, it was realized that they belonged to the people of Ad mentioned in the Koran, 31:00.860 --> 31:05.860 and the city of Iram that they had built. 31:05.860 --> 31:09.860 Clapp also made use of the Koran during his investigations. 31:09.860 --> 31:17.860 In the Koran, the city of Iram was described as possessing tall pillars. 31:17.860 --> 31:23.860 Yet the Arabic word used for pillar also means tower. 31:23.860 --> 31:30.860 In other words, the feature of the city described in the Koran was that it possessed tall towers. 31:34.860 --> 31:38.860 The traces of these tall towers duly emerged during the excavations. 31:39.860 --> 31:45.860 Thanks to the use of three-dimensional graphic technology, scientists were able to reconstruct them. 31:45.860 --> 31:57.860 Dr. Zarins, a member of the research team that carried out the excavations, stated that it was these towers that distinguish this city from other archaeological discoveries, 31:58.860 --> 32:05.860 and confirmed that the site was the city of Iram, which had belonged to the people of Ad mentioned in the Koran. 32:05.860 --> 32:18.860 Do you not see what your lord did with Ad of the city of Iram with lofty pillars, whose light was not created in any land? 32:22.860 --> 32:24.860 Ad denied the truth. 32:24.860 --> 32:27.860 How terrible were my punishments and warnings! 32:27.860 --> 32:31.860 We unleashed a howling wind against them on a day of unremitting horror. 32:32.860 --> 32:35.860 It plucked up men like uprooted stumps. 32:44.860 --> 32:48.860 The people of Ad, whose traces the archaeologists discovered in the city of Ubar, 32:49.860 --> 32:55.860 had denied the prophet Hud, who had been sent to them, at which they were destroyed by God. 32:55.860 --> 33:02.860 When they saw it as a storm cloud advancing on their valleys, they said, 33:03.860 --> 33:05.860 This is a storm cloud which will give us rain. 33:06.860 --> 33:12.860 No, rather it is what you desired to hasten, a wind containing painful punishment. 33:12.860 --> 33:24.860 It is revealed in the verse how the people saw a cloud that would bring them great suffering, 33:25.860 --> 33:29.860 yet that they failed to understand its significance, believing it to be a rain cloud. 33:29.860 --> 33:36.860 This is an important indication of the nature of the suffering that was about to be unleashed on them. 33:37.860 --> 33:38.860 Desert storms. 33:39.860 --> 33:45.860 The whirlwinds that proceed along by raising up the desert sands resemble a rain cloud from a distance. 33:46.860 --> 33:51.860 It is possible that the people of Ad were deceived by this and failed to realize the danger. 33:51.860 --> 34:03.860 In fact, Ubar, the Atlantis of the sands, was unearthed from beneath a layer of sand several meters thick. 34:03.860 --> 34:17.860 As revealed in the Koran, the storm lasted seven days and eight nights, depositing tons of sand on the city and burying its population alive. 34:17.860 --> 34:32.860 The most important evidence that the people of Ad had been buried in a desert storm is the word A-kaf, used in the Koran to define the place of the people of Ad. 34:32.860 --> 34:46.860 Remember the brother of Ad when he warned his people by the sand dunes and warners passed away before and after him. 34:47.860 --> 34:49.860 Worship no one but God. 34:50.860 --> 34:53.860 I fear for you the punishment of a terrible day. 34:53.860 --> 35:00.860 A-kaf in Arabic means sand dunes. 35:05.860 --> 35:09.860 This shows that the people of Ad lived in a region full of sand dunes. 35:10.860 --> 35:13.860 So it is quite natural that the city should have been buried in a sand storm. 35:13.860 --> 35:33.860 The disaster that struck the people of Ad in the form of a storm that flattened people just like the hollow stumps of uprooted palms must have destroyed the whole population within a very short time. 35:34.860 --> 35:39.860 The whole city and everything in it was buried alive under the sand. 35:39.860 --> 35:49.860 The desert slowly spread after the destruction of the people of Ad, leaving no trace of them behind as it settled over them. 35:54.860 --> 36:06.860 In brief, historical and archeological discoveries proved the existence of the people of Ad and of the city of Iram with lofty pillars as mentioned in the Koran, 36:06.860 --> 36:12.860 and that they were destroyed in just the same way that the Koran relates. 36:13.860 --> 36:17.860 Research has unearthed traces of that people from beneath the desert sands. 36:21.860 --> 36:27.860 In the Koran, God reveals that the people of Ad turned away from the straight path out of arrogance. 36:27.860 --> 36:35.860 The peoples we have been examining all committed similar mistakes. 36:36.860 --> 36:37.860 They all rebelled against God. 36:38.860 --> 36:40.860 They adopted other gods than Him. 36:41.860 --> 36:44.860 They grew arrogant in the earth without any right, 36:45.860 --> 36:47.860 and turned to sexual deviancy and perversion, 36:48.860 --> 36:49.860 and God destroyed them. 36:49.860 --> 36:57.860 A great many societies that have lived throughout the course of history have been destroyed for similar reasons, 36:58.860 --> 37:00.860 not just the few examples we have seen here. 37:01.860 --> 37:06.860 God tells us of this fact in the Koran and asks us to think hard about them. 37:06.860 --> 37:16.860 Our task is to learn from the destruction of these peoples and to take warning from them. 37:17.860 --> 37:19.860 One verse from the Koran says, 37:19.860 --> 37:25.860 Ad were arrogant in the land without any right, saying, 37:26.860 --> 37:28.860 Who has greater strength than us? 37:29.860 --> 37:32.860 Did they not see that God who created them had greater strength than them? 37:33.860 --> 37:35.860 But they renounced our signs. 37:35.860 --> 37:44.860 We must not forget that God can destroy an individual or a whole people whenever He wishes. 37:45.860 --> 37:50.860 He can also honor those whom He wishes and confer blessing upon them. 37:51.860 --> 37:54.860 All good and beautiful things are in the hands of God. 37:55.860 --> 38:02.860 Man's duty is to constantly thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed and to seek His good pleasure. 38:02.860 --> 38:07.860 God issues the following call to man in another verse of the Koran. 38:10.860 --> 38:13.860 Whole societies have passed away before your time. 38:14.860 --> 38:18.860 So travel about the earth and see the final fate of the deniers. 38:19.860 --> 38:21.860 This is a clear explanation for all mankind, 38:22.860 --> 38:25.860 and guidance and admonition for those who do their duty.