Hud
11. Hūd
هود

Hūd (Hud)

هُود

11:116

فَلَوْلَا

كَانَ

مِنَ

الْقُرُونِ

مِن

قَبْلِكُمْ

أُولُو

بَقِيَّةٍ

يَنْهَوْنَ

عَنِ

الْفَسَادِ

فِي

الْأَرْضِ

إِلَّا

قَلِيلًا

مِّمَّنْ

أَنجَيْنَا

مِنْهُمْ

وَاتَّبَعَ

الَّذِينَ

ظَلَمُوا

مَا

أُتْرِفُوا

فِيهِ

وَكَانُوا

مُجْرِمِينَ

fa-law-lā kāna mina l-qurūni min qablikum ʾulū baqiyyatin yanhawna ʿani l-fasādi l-ʾarḍi ʾillā qalīlan mimman ʾanjaynā minhum wa-ttabaʿa lladhīna ẓalamū ʾutrifū fīhi wa-kānū mujrimīna

Why were there no people of understanding among those people of the destroyed towns of the past except for a few, whom we saved from destruction, to prevent people from committing evil in the land? The unjust among them indulged in worldly pleasures and so became guilty.

Muhammad Sarwar