Conclusion
If only there had been people of wisdom among the generations before you, who could have prevented corruption in the land! But only a few among them did so, and We saved them. The wrongdoers pursued their luxuries and became guilty.
11:116If only there had been among the generations before you men possessing a remnant (of good sense) to warn (their people) from corruption in the earth, as did a few of those whom We saved from them! The wrong-doers followed that by which they were made sapless, and were guilty.