Instructions: In this task, you are given a sentence from the Quran in Persian, and your task is to translate it into English.
Input:  «اگر پند [نامه‌ا] ى از پیشینیان نزد ما بود،
Output:

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
user
If we had the account of earlier people with us,