وَإِذَآ أَرَدْنَآ أَن نُّهْلِكَ قَرْيَةً أَمَرْنَا مُتْرَفِيهَا فَفَسَقُوا۟ فِيهَا فَحَقَّ عَلَيْهَا ٱلْقَوْلُ فَدَمَّرْنَٰهَا تَدْمِيرًۭا
How to read it
Wa 'idhā 'arad'nā 'an nnuh'lika qar'yatan 'amar'nā mut'rafīhā fafassaqū fīhā faḥaqqa ʻalay'hā l-qaw'lu fadammar'nāhā tad'mīran
When We decide to destroy a population, We (first) send a definite order to those among them who are given the good things of this life and yet transgress; so that the word is proved true against them: then (it is) We destroy them utterly.
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali

