Al-Mursalat Verse 16

Did We not destroy earlier disbelievers?

Did We not destroy the earlier nations?

Did We not destroy the ancients,

Did We not destroy the first [of them]?

Destroyed We not the ancients?

Did We not destroy the men of old (for their evil)?

Did We not destroy many a nation of the earlier times?

Have We not destroyed the earlier generations?

Did We not destroy the earlier people?

Did We not destroy the former generations,

Did We not destroy the ancient peoples (who denied)?

Did We not destroy the earlier peoples?

Did We not destroy the first/beginners?

Did We not destroy the earlier people?

Did We not destroy the former generations?

Did We not destroy the ancients?

Then We followed them up with later ones.

Did We not destroy the former generations?

Destroyed We not the former folk,

Did We not destroy the ancient people

Did We not destroy the ancients

Did We not destroy the ancients

Did We not destroy the earlier peoples?

Did We not destroy the ancients?

Did We not destroy the ancients, for their denial, in other words, We certainly destroyed them,

The Call to contemplate the various Manifestations of Allah's Power

Allah says,

أَلَمْ نُهْلِكِ الاَْوَّلِينَ




Did We not destroy the ancients?

meaning, those who rejected the Messengers and opposed what they came to them with.

ثُمَّ نُتْبِعُهُمُ الاْخِرِينَ