أَوَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرُوا۟ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ كَانُوٓا۟ أَشَدَّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةًۭ وَأَثَارُوا۟ ٱلْأَرْضَ وَعَمَرُوهَآ أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا عَمَرُوهَا وَجَآءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ ۖ فَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ لِيَظْلِمَهُمْ وَلَٰكِن كَانُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ
How to read it
'Awalam' yassīrū fī l-'ar'ḍi fayanẓurū kay'fa kāna ʻāqibatu -lladhīna min qab'lihim' . kānū 'ashadda min'hum' quwatan wa'athārū l-'ar'ḍa waʻamarūhā 'ak'thara mimmā ʻamarūhā wajā'at'hum' russuluhum bil-bayyināti . famā kāna -llahu liyaẓ'limahum' walākin kānū 'anfussahum' yaẓ'limūna
Do they not travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those before them? They were superior to them in strength: they tilled the soil and populated it in greater numbers than these have done: there came to them their messengers with Clear (Signs). (Which they rejected, to their own destruction): It was not Allah Who wronged them, but they wronged their own souls.
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
