سورة الأنبياء، الآية ١١
وَكَمْ قَصَمْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍ كَانَتْ ظَالِمَةً وَأَنشَأْنَا بَعْدَهَا قَوْمًا ءَاخَرِينَ ١١
wakam qaṣamnā min qaryatin kānat ẓālimatan wa-anshanā baʿdahā qawman ākharīna
And how many a city which was unjust876 have We shattered and produced after it another people.
[876] i.e., its inhabitants persisting in wrongdoing.
Verse 11 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:11), a Meccan surah, is in juz 17, on page 323 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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There are many towns which I destroyed due to their injustice through disbelief, and I created other people after them.
[Imagine] how many towns of wrongdoers We have destroyed6, and raised after them another people!
[6] i.e., who were persisting in wrongdoing.
How many a town (community) given to wrong-doing, have We destroyed, and raised up after them another people!
How many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and raised up after them another folk!
How many were the populations We utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples?
And how many a town which was iniquitous did We demolish, and We raised up after it another people!
And how many a town that was unjust We have shattered, and We brought into being after it another people.
