why were there no people of understanding among those people of the destroyed towns of the past except for a few whom we saved from destruction to prevent people from committing evil in the land? the unjust among them indulged in worldly pleasures and so became guilty.
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