The Rocky Tract
15. Al-Ḥijr
الحجر
Page #262
15:4
وَمَا
أَهْلَكْنَا
مِن
قَرْيَةٍ
إِلَّا
وَلَهَا
كِتَابٌ
مَّعْلُومٌ
wa-mā ʾahlaknā min qaryatin ʾillā wa-lahā kitābun maʿlūmun
We did not destroy any town but that it had a known term.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand.
