have they not travelled through the earth and seen what was the end of those before them? they were more numerous than them and mightier in strength and in the traces in the land yet all that they used to earn availed them not.
أفلم يسيروا في الأرض فينظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين من قبلهم كانوا أكثر منهم وأشد قوة وآثارا في الأرض فما أغنى عنهم ما كانوا يكسبون