Have they not seen how many a people We have destroyed before them? People whom We had made more powerful in the earth than you are and upon them We showered from the heavens abundant rains, and at whose feet We caused the rivers to flow? And then (when they behaved ungratefully) We destroyed them for their sins, and raised other peoples in their place.
آيا نديدند كه چه گروه‌هايى از مردم را پيش از آنان نابود كرديم، آنان را در زمين چنان جايگاه و توان داديم كه شما را نداديم و بر آنان بارانهاى پياپى فرستاديم و جويها را در زير [پاى‌] آنها روان ساختيم، پس آنان را به سزاى گناهانشان هلاك كرديم، و از پس ايشان مردمى ديگر پديد آورديم.