Previous Peoples
Have they not travelled the land and seen the fate of those before them? They were greater in strength and left deeper marks on the earth, yet Allah seized them for their sins.
40:21Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those who disbelieved before them? They were mightier than these in power and (in the) traces (which they left behind them) in the earth. Yet Allah seized them for their sins, and they had no protector from Allah.