we relate to you such accounts of earlier towns some of them are still standing while others have ceased to exist we did not wrong them they wronged themselves the deities they called on besides god availed them nothing when gods command came upon them they only added to their ruin.
ذلك من أنباء القرى نقصه عليك منها قائم وحصيد وما ظلمناهم ولكن ظلموا أنفسهم فما أغنت عنهم آلهتهم التي يدعون من دون الله من شيء لما جاء أمر ربك وما زادوهم غير تتبيب