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).