but alas among those generations before your time there were no people endowed with any virtue who would speak out against the corruption on earth except the few of them whom we saved whereas those who were bent on evildoing only pursued pleasures which corrupted their whole being and so lost themselves in sinning.
فلولا كان من القرون من قبلكم أولو بقية ينهون عن الفساد في الأرض إلا قليلا ممن أنجينا منهم واتبع الذين ظلموا ما أترفوا فيه وكانوا مجرمين