Cities Destroyed
When We intend to destroy a town, We command its affluent ones, but they transgress, so the decree is justified, and We annihilate it completely.
17:16And when We would destroy a township We send commandment to its folk who live at ease, and afterward they commit abomination therein, and so the Word (of doom) hath effect for it, and we annihilate it with complete annihilation.
How many towns were mightier than yours, which expelled you? We destroyed them, and they had no helper.
47:13And how many a township stronger than thy township (O Muhammad) which hath cast thee out, have We destroyed, and they had no helper!
So, We destroyed those who were mightier than them, and the example of the ancients has passed.
43:8Then We destroyed men mightier than these in prowess; and the example of the men of old hath gone (before them).
Is one who stands upon clear proof from his Lord like one whose evil deeds are made to seem fair to him, and who follows his own desires?
47:14Is he who relieth on a clear proof from his Lord like those for whom the evil that they do is beautified while they follow their own lusts?
How many towns have We destroyed while they were steeped in wrongdoing! Now they lie in ruins, with wells abandoned and palaces deserted.
22:45How many a township have We destroyed while it was sinful, so that it lieth (to this day) in ruins, and (how many) a deserted well and lofty tower!
How many towns did I give respite to while they were unjust? Then I seized them, and to Me is the final return.
22:48And how many a township did I suffer long though it was sinful! Then I grasped it. Unto Me is the return.
How many communities rebelled against their Lord’s command and His messengers!
65:8And how many a community revolted against the ordinance of its Lord and His messengers, and We called it to a stern account and punished it with dire punishment,
But no town before them believed when We sent signs, will they believe now?
21:6Not a township believed of those which We destroyed before them (though We sent them portents): would they then believe?
“They spurned every sign We sent, so We struck them down with the relentless grip of the Almighty
54:42Who denied Our revelations, every one. Therefore We grasped them with the grasp of the Mighty, the Powerful.
This is how your Lord seizes cities when they persist in wrongdoing
11:102Even thus is the grasp of thy Lord when He graspeth the townships while they are doing wrong. Lo! His grasp is painful, very strong.
Did the people of the towns feel secure that Our punishment would not come upon them by night while they slept?
7:97Are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them as a night-raid while they sleep?
We destroyed those towns when they wronged, and We set a fixed time for their destruction.
18:59And (all) those townships! We destroyed them when they did wrong, and We appointed a fixed time for their destruction.
How many towns have We destroyed! Our punishment came upon them by night or while they rested at noon.
7:4How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them.
When Our punishment struck them, their only cry was, “We were indeed wrongdoers!”
7:5No plea had they, when Our terror came unto them, save that they said: Lo! We were wrong-doers.
Or did they feel secure that Our punishment would not strike them by day while they played?
7:98Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play?
Did they feel safe from Allah’s plan? None feels secure from Allah’s plan except those who are truly lost.
7:99Are they then secure from Allah's scheme? None deemeth himself secure from Allah's scheme save folk that perish.
Surely the Day of Decision is their appointed time, all together.
44:40Assuredly the Day of Decision is the term for all of them,
We have destroyed towns around you, and We varied the signs so they might return.
46:27And verily We have destroyed townships round about you, and displayed (for them) Our revelation, that haply they might return.
There is no town We will not destroy before the Day of Judgment or punish severely.
17:58There is not a township but We shall destroy it ere the Day of Resurrection, or punish it with dire punishment. That is set forth in the Book (of Our decrees).
How many towns have We destroyed for their wrongdoing, raising up others after them?
21:11How many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and raised up after them another folk!
We never destroyed a town except that it had a known decree.
15:4And We destroyed no township but there was a known decree for it.
No nation can hasten its end, nor delay it.
15:5No nation can outstrip its term nor can they lag behind.
We never destroyed a town without sending warners
26:208And We destroyed no township but it had its warners
As a reminder, and We were never unjust.
26:209For reminder, for We never were oppressors.
It does not suit them, nor could they have done so.
26:211It is not meet for them, nor is it in their power,
They are barred from even listening.
26:212Lo! verily they are banished from the hearing.
That is because your Lord would not destroy towns unjustly while their people were unaware.
6:131This is because thy Lord destroyeth not the townships arbitrarily while their people are unconscious (of the wrong they do).
For all, there are degrees according to their deeds. Your Lord is not unaware of what they do.
6:132For all there will be ranks from what they did. Thy Lord is not unaware of what they do.
Surely, in that are signs for those who discern.
15:76And lo! it is upon a road still uneffaced.
How many generations before them have We destroyed? Do you perceive even a trace of them or hear from them a whisper?
19:98And how many a generation before them have We destroyed! Canst thou (Muhammad) see a single man of them, or hear from them the slightest sound?