those who lived before them did too devise many a blasphemy whereupon god visited with destruction all that they had ever built at its very foundations so that the roof fell in upon them from above and suffering befell them without their having perceived whence it came.
قد مكر الذين من قبلهم فأتى الله بنيانهم من القواعد فخر عليهم السقف من فوقهم وأتاهم العذاب من حيث لا يشعرون