The Romans
30. Ar-Rūm
الروم
Page #405
30:9
أَوَلَمْ
يَسِيرُوا
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
فَيَنظُرُوا
كَيْفَ
كَانَ
عَاقِبَةُ
الَّذِينَ
مِن
قَبْلِهِمْ
كَانُوا
أَشَدَّ
مِنْهُمْ
قُوَّةً
وَأَثَارُوا
الْأَرْضَ
وَعَمَرُوهَا
أَكْثَرَ
مِمَّا
عَمَرُوهَا
وَجَاءَتْهُمْ
رُسُلُهُم
بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ
فَمَا
كَانَ
اللَّهُ
لِيَظْلِمَهُمْ
وَلَكِن
كَانُوا
أَنفُسَهُمْ
يَظْلِمُونَ
ʾa-wa-lam yasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fa-yanẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu lladhīna min qablihim kānū ʾashadda minhum quwwatan wa-ʾathārū l-ʾarḍa wa-ʿamarūhā ʾakthara mimmā ʿamarūhā wa-jāʾathum rusuluhum bi-l-bayyināti fa-mā kāna llāhu li-yaẓlimahum wa-lākin kānū ʾanfusahum yaẓlimūna
Do they not travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those before them? They were superior to them in strength: they tilled the soil and populated it in greater numbers than these have done: there came to them their messengers with Clear (Signs). (Which they rejected, to their own destruction): It was not Allah Who wronged them, but they wronged their own souls.
— Abdullah Yusufali
Have they not travelled in the land and seen how was the fate of those who were before them? They were more powerful than them, and they plowed the earth and developed it more than they have developed it. Their apostles brought them manifest proofs. So it was not Allah who wronged them, but it was they who used to wrong themselves.
