Previous Peoples

Say to the disbelievers: If they desist, their past will be forgiven. But if they persist, then the fate of those before them has already been sealed.

8:38Tell those who disbelieve that if they cease (from persecution of believers) that which is past will be forgiven them; but if they return (thereto) then the example of the men of old hath already gone (before them, for a warning).

Those before them plotted, but Allah struck at their foundations, causing their roofs to collapse upon them. Punishment came upon them from where they never expected.

16:26Those before them plotted, so Allah struck at the foundations of their building, and then the roof fell down upon them from above them, and the doom came on them whence they knew not;

Like Pharaoh’s people and those before them, they rejected Allah’s signs, so He seized them for their sins.

8:52(Their way is) as the way of Pharaoh's folk and those before them; they disbelieved the revelations of Allah, and Allah took them in their sins. Lo! Allah is Strong, severe in punishment.

This is because Allah never changes a blessing He grants a people unless they change what is within themselves.

8:53That is because Allah never changeth the grace He hath bestowed on any people until they first change that which is in their hearts, and (that is) because Allah is Hearer, Knower.

Like Pharaoh’s people and those before them, they denied their Lord’s signs, so We destroyed them for their sins and drowned Pharaoh’s people. They were all wrongdoers.

8:54(Their way is) as the way of Pharaoh's folk and those before them; they denied the revelations of their Lord, so We destroyed them in their sins. And We drowned the folk of Pharaoh. All were evil-doers.

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.