we have also destroyed other towns that once around you we had given them various signs so that they might return so why did their gods not help them those they set up as gods besides god to bring them nearer to him? no indeed! they failed them utterly it was all a lie a fabrication of their own making.
ولقد أهلكنا ما حولكم من القرى وصرفنا الآيات لعلهم يرجعون فلولا نصرهم الذين اتخذوا من دون الله قربانا آلهة بل ضلوا عنهم وذلك إفكهم وما كانوا يفترون