do they not see how many civilisations we destroyed before them whom we had established more firmly in the earth than we have established you and we sent on them abundant rain from the sky and made the rivers flow beneath them? so we destroyed them because of their sins and created another civilisation 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