And never will your Lord destroy the towns (populations) until He sends to their mother town a Messenger reciting to them Our Verses. And never would We destroy the towns unless the people thereof are Zalimun (polytheists, wrong-doers, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, oppressors and tyrants).
و پروردگار تو نابودكننده شهرها و آباديها نيست مگر تا آنكه در مركز آنها پيامبرى برانگيزد كه آيات ما را بر آنان بخواند و ما نابودكننده شهرها نبوديم مگر آنكه مردم آنها ستمكار بودند.