Surat Al-An‘am Verse No. 131: Reading and listening
Translation of the verse 131 from Surah Al-An‘am : Number of verses 165 - - page 145 - Part 8.
﴾ذَٰلِكَ أَن لَّمۡ يَكُن رَّبُّكَ مُهۡلِكَ ٱلۡقُرَىٰ بِظُلۡمٖ وَأَهۡلُهَا غَٰفِلُونَ ﴿
[ الأنعام: 131]
This is because your Lord would not destroy the (populations of) towns for their wrong-doing (i.e. associating others in worship along with Allah) while their people were unaware (so the Messengers were sent).
English - Sahih International
That is because your Lord would not destroy the cities for wrongdoing while their people were unaware.
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(6:131) (They will be made to bear this witness to show that) it is not the way of your Lord to destroy cities unjustly while their people were unaware of the Truth. *100
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
*100). God does not want His creatures to have any valid reason to complain that He had left them ignorant of the Right Way, and then convicted them of error. God has forestalled any such grievance by sending Prophets and revealing Holy Books to warn both jinn and human beings. If people continue to falter in spite of God's arrangements for their guidance, they themselves are to blame for the punishment they will receive, and they have no justification for blaming their misfortune on God.