If only there had been among the generations before you, persons having wisdom, prohibiting (others) from Al-Fasad (disbelief, polytheism, and all kinds of crimes and sins) in the earth, except a few of those whom We saved from among them. Those who did wrong pursued the enjoyment of good things of (this worldly) life, and were Mujrimun (criminals, disbelievers in Allah, polytheists, sinners, etc.).
از چه رو در میان اقوامی که پیش از شما بودند خردمندانی نبودند که از فساد در روی زمین نهی کنند، مگر گروهی اندک از کسانی که نجاتشان داده بودیم، و ستم‌پیشگان [مشرک‌] دل در ناز و نعمتی که یافته بودند، بستند، و گنهکار بودند