The Forgiver
40. Ghāfir
غافر
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أَفَلَمْ
يَسِيرُوا
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
فَيَنظُرُوا
كَيْفَ
كَانَ
عَاقِبَةُ
الَّذِينَ
مِن
قَبْلِهِمْ
كَانُوا
أَكْثَرَ
مِنْهُمْ
وَأَشَدَّ
قُوَّةً
وَآثَارًا
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
فَمَا
أَغْنَى
عَنْهُم
مَّا
كَانُوا
يَكْسِبُونَ
ʾa-fa-lam yasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fa-yanẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu lladhīna min qablihim kānū ʾakthara minhum wa-ʾashadda quwwatan wa-ʾāthāran fī l-ʾarḍi fa-mā ʾaghnā ʿanhum mā kānū yaksibūna
Have they not travelled over the land so that they may observe how was the fate of those who were before them? They were more numerous than them and were greater [than them] in power and with respect to the effects [they left] in the land. But what they used to earn did not avail them.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Do they not travel through the earth and see what was the End of those before them? They were more numerous than these and superior in strength and in the traces (they have left) in the land: Yet all that they accomplished was of no profit to them.
