and all the noble messengers we sent before you were exclusively men – towards whom we sent the divine revelations and were dwellers of townships so have not these people travelled in the land and seen what sort of fate befell those before them? and undoubtedly the abode of the hereafter is better for the pious so do you not have sense?
وما أرسلنا من قبلك إلا رجالا نوحي إليهم من أهل القرى أفلم يسيروا في الأرض فينظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين من قبلهم ولدار الآخرة خير للذين اتقوا أفلا تعقلون