Has not the account of those before them come to them, -- of the people of Noah and 'Ad and Thamud, of Abraham and Midian, and all the habitations that were destroyed? Their apostles had come to them with clear proofs; and God did not surely wrong them, they wronged themselves.
آيا گزارش [حال‌] كسانى كه پيش از آنان بودند: قوم نوح و عاد و ثمود و قوم ابراهيم و اصحاب مَدْيَن و شهرهاى زير و رو شده، به ايشان نرسيده است؟ پيامبرانشان دلايل آشكار برايشان آوردند، خدا بر آن نبود كه به آنان ستم كند ولى آنان بر خود ستم روا مى‌داشتند.