The Ornaments of Gold
43. Az-Zukhruf
الزخرف

al-Zukhruf

The Gold Ornaments

MeccanVerse 23 of 89
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43:23

wa-ka-dhālika ʾarsalnā min qablika qaryatin min nadhīrin ʾillā qāla mutrafūhā ʾinnā wajadnā ʾābāʾanā ʿalā ʾummatin wa-ʾinnā ʿalā ʾāthārihim muqtadūna

So it has been that We did not send any warner to a town before you, without its affluent ones saying, ‘We found our fathers following a creed and we are indeed following in their footsteps.’

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