Alam yaraw kam ahlaknā min qablihim min qarnim makkannāhum fil-arḍi mā lam numakkil lakum wa arsalnas-samāʾa ʿalayhim midrāraw wa jaʿalnal-anhāra tajrī min taḥtihim fa ahlaknāhum bidhunūbihim wa anshaʾnā mim baʿdihim qarnan ākharīn.
Have they not seen how many generations We destroyed before them which We had established upon the earth as We have not established you? And We sent [rain from] the sky upon them in showers and made rivers flow beneath them; then We destroyed them for their sins and brought forth after them a generation of others.