سورة الأنعام، الآية ١٣١
ذَٰلِكَ أَن لَّمْ يَكُن رَّبُّكَ مُهْلِكَ ٱلْقُرَىٰ بِظُلْمٍ وَأَهْلُهَا غَٰفِلُونَ ١٣١
dhālika an lam yakun rabbuka muh'lika l-qurā biẓul'min wa-ahluhā ghāfilūna
That is because your Lord would not destroy the cities for wrongdoing345 while their people were unaware.
[345] Or "unjustly."
Verse 131 of Surah Al-An’am (6:131), a Meccan surah, is in juz 8, on page 144 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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The reason for sending messengers to mankind and jinn is so that no one is punished for the crimes they committed without a messenger having been sent to warn them and the invitation reaching them. I only punished a nation after sending messengers to them.
This is because your Lord would never destroy a town for their wrongdoing while its people are unaware [of the truth].
This is because your Lord would not destroy the (populations of) towns for their wrong-doing (i.e. associating others in worship along with Allâh) while their people were unaware (so the Messengers were sent).
This is because thy Lord destroyeth not the townships arbitrarily while their people are unconscious (of the wrong they do).
(The messengers were sent) thus, for thy Lord would not destroy for their wrong-doing men's habitations whilst their occupants were unwarned.
This is because your Lord would not destroy towns unjustly while their people were negligent.
That is so, for your Lord would not cause towns to perish unjustly, (Literally: with injustice) (while) their population are heedless.
