have they not seen how many generations we have destroyed before them whom we had established in the land in a way we never established you sending down for them abundant water from the sky and made the rivers to flow underneath them? yet because they sinned we destroyed them and raised up other generations after them.
ألم يروا كم أهلكنا من قبلهم من قرن مكناهم في الأرض ما لم نمكن لكم وأرسلنا السماء عليهم مدرارا وجعلنا الأنهار تجري من تحتهم فأهلكناهم بذنوبهم وأنشأنا من بعدهم قرنا آخرين