your lord would never destroy a people until he had sent messengers to their capital cities reciting to them our revelations. nor did we destroy a town unless their people became wrongdoers.
وما كان ربك مهلك القرى حتى يبعث في أمها رسولا يتلو عليهم آياتنا وما كنا مهلكي القرى إلا وأهلها ظالمون