If only there had been among the generations before you men possessing a remnant (of good sense) to warn (their people) from corruption in the earth, as did a few of those whom We saved from them! The wrong-doers followed that by which they were made sapless, and were guilty.
چرا در قرون (و اقوام) قبل از شما، دانشمندان صاحب قدرتی نبودند که از فساد در زمین جلوگیری کنند؟! مگر اندکی از آنها، که نجاتشان دادیم! و آنان که ستم می‌کردند، از تنعّم و کامجوئی پیروی کردند؛ و گناهکار بودند (و نابود شدند)!