God Almighty has Himself pointed to the condign punishments...

God Almighty has Himself pointed to the condign punishments that visit nations violating His laws. And so we are told: So We took each one in his sin; of them was he on whom We sent a hurricane, and of them was he who was overtaken by the (awful) cry, and of them was he whom We caused the earth to swallow, and of them was he whom We drowned. It was not for Allah to wrong them, but they wronged themselves. (129: 40). The period of life which the Prophet…