Your Lord would not destroy the towns until He had raised an apostle in their mother city to recite to them Our signs. We would never destroy the towns except when their people were wrongdoers.
だがあなたの主はその（国の）首都に使徒を遣わし，かれらにわが印を読誦してからでなければ1つの町をも滅ぼしたことがなかった。またその民が悪を行わない限り，町や村を滅ぼさなかった。