The Holy Quran frequently speaks of ‘fires’ and violent ‘blasts’ of earthquakes. Commentators’ reference to ‘thunder and lightning that shook the mountainside’, to ‘penalty of the blazing fire’, and to ‘passing through the furnace’ signifies the region that was struck by earthquakes, that held deserts in its fold, and that explains the volcanic position within its geographical limits.

Existence of the volcano near the City of Troy as described in Homer’s Iliad and in Indian puranas, finds its home in the same geographical plain in the Quran also;
‘Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa:( 79. Al Nazi’at (Those Who Tear Out). Tuwa here represents Troy of the classics. ‘After many years spent in a quiet life, grazing his father-in-law’s flocks, he came one day to the valley of Tuwa underneath the great mountain mass of Sinai, called Tur. Then was fulfilled Allah’s Plan: he saw the fire in the distance, and when he went up, he was addressed by Allah and chosen to be Allah’s Messenger’.
Commentators of the Holy Quran see the Midianites disappeared from history;
a shower of ashes and cinders marks a volcanic eruption that brought complete destruction of the Midianites’. (26. Al Shu’ara (The Poets).
Similar was the fate of the ‘Ad, people; they were destroyed by roaring, violent blast; ‘Which He made to prevail against them seven nights and eight days continuously’. Ancestor ‘Ad was fourth in generation from Noah, having been a son of ‘Aus, the son of Aram , the son of Sam, the son of Noah.
According to 69 Surah, Al Haqqah , the Thamud were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning, and the ´Ad were destroyed by a furious Wind,

‘Destroying everything by the command of its Lord; so they became such that naught could be seen except their dwellings.’ (xlvi.24,31).
Nineveh was a very ancient town and it is also no longer on the map(7. Al A’raf).
‘Hundreds of empires, towns, and generations have perished for their wickedness’(16. Al Nahl (The Bee).
‘But those who disobey Allah and His Messenger and transgress His limits will be admitted to a ‘Fire’, to abide therein: And they shall have a humiliating punishment’(4, Al Nisa).
Variously, lines of the Quran repeatedly warns to stay away from the sins; or else, punishment will come as deemed fit; ‘Behold, he saw a fire: So he said to his family, “Tarry ye; I perceive a fire; perhaps I can bring you some burning brand there from, or find some guidance at the fire.” (20. Ta Ha)
‘The exact hour or day when the Judgement comes is hidden from man; the fact of its coming is a certainty: the exact time appointed for it is not revealed by Allah’.
‘Yea, such! – then shall they taste it,- a boiling fluid, and a fluid dark, murky, intensely cold!- (37. Al Saffat (Those Ranged in Ranks))
‘Then watch thou for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke (or mist) plainly visible’,( 44. Al Dukhan (The Smoke)
‘But of that day and that Hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven…for ye know not when the time is.’
“Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground’.
‘It was no more than a single mighty Blast, and behold! they were (like ashes) quenched and silent’. (36. Ya Sin).
The word al Say hah (mighty Blast) is used for the Resurrection (as here) or for the sudden punishment of the guilty on this earth, (49. Al Hujurat (The Chambers))
‘And the mountains shall be crumbled to atoms’,( 56. Al Waqi’ah (The Inevitable).
‘And the mountains will be like wool, ( 70. Al Ma’arij (The Ways of Ascent).
‘And the earth is moved, and its mountains are crushed to powder at one stroke’ (69. Al Haqqah (The Sure Reality).
Commentators of the Quran while explaining the 74 Surah, Al Muddaththir, speaks of ‘Angels of Fire’; ‘the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon’. In the Old Testament (Daniel 7:9-10) essence of all angels is fire: thousands of them issued as a fiery stream from before the Ancient Days, whose ‘throne was like the fiery flame, and wheels as burning fire’.
Here, Abaddon and Apollyon are place-names; and this helps in identifying the seat of the volcano in the region of Troy on the bank of the river Scamander and near the sea.
In 75 Surah, Al Qiyamah, fate of the moon is seen covered under darkness, and sun and moon are found coming together. This is a geographical explanation on the situation of the Sun and the Moon kingdom identifying their deified situation among the Eight Gods of the primordial times in the same region where anciently Jerusalem stood.
‘The Stars are scattered, the Oceans are suffered to burst forth, and the Graves are turned upside down’ as read through explanation to the Surah 81. Al Takwir (The Folding Up), it puts the scheme of resurrection within the defined zone of the volcano where situated then ‘inhabited world’.
‘Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder’(89. Al Fajr (The Dawn) ;
‘When the earth is shaken to her (utmost) convulsion,( 99. Al Zalzalah (The Earthquake);
‘And the mountains will be like carded wool’. (101. Al Qari’ah (The Great Calamity), all lines of the Quran reminds the world of men and women to be conscious of the ‘Fire’ that sits at a ‘distance’ which will consume one and all sin against the ‘sin’.
While explaining the Surah 111. Al Lahab (The Flame), Commentators see Abu Lahab as ‘Father of Flame’, the nickname of an uncle of the Prophet; and they are of the opinion that this term ‘Father of the Flame’ is indicative of the fiery or hot temperament of Abu Lahab. He was one of the most inveterate enemies of early Islam. When the Prophet called together Quraysh and his own kith and kin to come and listen to his preaching and his warning against the sins of his people, the ‘Father of Flame’. In reality, as it seems, Abu Lahab belongs to the region of the volcano, and as most of the ancient names carry in their names the geographical ‘tag’, the term ‘Lahab’ refers to the Hebr ‘olah’ or ‘loha’ that identifies the ‘iron’. Thus Abu Lahab was a man of this region, and may have been engaged in iron trading also.