Observe they not how many a generation before them We have destroyed whom We had established on the earth as We have not established you, and upon whom We had sent the rains of heaven pouring and under whom We had made the rivers flow; yet We destroyed them for their sins and We produced after them a generation of others.
われはかれら以前に，次から次に幾世代も滅ぼしたかを，あなたがたは考えないのか。われは地上でかれらを代々安住させ，あなたがたにすらしなかったものを与えた。われは，かれらの上に雲を送り（雨を）注ぎ降らせ，その足許に川を流れさせた。だが凡ての罪のためにかれらを滅ぼし，その跡に外の世代を出現させた。