have they not regarded how many a generation we have destroyed before them whom we had granted power in the land in respects that we did not grant you and we sent abundant rains for them from the sky and made streams run for them? then we destroyed them for their sins and brought forth another generation 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