if there had been except for a few among them whom we saved among the generations that have gone before you some that remained forbidding corruption in the land but the wrongdoers pursued the ease they had been given to delight in and became sinners.
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