كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَبْلِهِم مِّن قَرْنٍ فَنَادَوا وَّلَاتَ حِينَ مَنَاصٍ
How many a generation We have destroyed before them! They cried out [for help], but gone was the time for escape.
Agha Ali Puya Commentary
Commentary on Quran 38:3
[Pooya/Ali Commentary 38:3] People who rejected the truth when they were invited to it and did not bother to alter their faith even during the respite given to them, were finally seized and destroyed by Allah. They cried for help but this was in vain. There was no way left for them to escape. Refer to the relevant verses in Araf, Yunus, Hud, Hijr and other surahs for the destruction of the people of Nuh, Hud, Salih, Lut, Shu-ayb and Musa.