The Holy Quran 36:31 — Surah Ya-Sin

Arabic text

أَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْقُرُونِ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ

Translation

Have they not seen how many were the nations that We destroyed before them (all of whom behaved as they do)? (These nations were so thoroughly destroyed that) They will certainly never return to them (in the world).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

A lesson from the fate of earlier nations: that is, they see and hear how many nations in the world that mocked the earlier prophets have been destroyed, so that their very name and trace have been erased. Not one of them has returned from there to here. The millstone of punishment has ground them all down and levelled them.

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