Why were there not, out of the generations that passed away before you, righteous men who would forbid others from causing corruption on the earth? And if such were there, they were only a few whom We had saved from those generations, or else the wrong-doers kept pursuing the ease and comfort which had been conferred upon them, thus losing themselves in sinfulness.
To, don me mãsu hankali ba su kasance daga mutãnen ƙarnõnin da suke a gabãninku ba, sunã hani daga ɓarna a cikin ƙasa? fãce kaɗan daga wanda Muka kuɓutar daga gare su (sun yi hanin). Kuma waɗanda suka yi zãlunci suka bin abin da aka ni'imtar da su a cikinsa, suka kasance mãsu laifi.