Surat Al-Mursalat Verse No. 16: Reading and listening
Translation of the verse 16 from Surah Al-Mursalat : Number of verses 50 - - page 580 - Part 29.
﴾أَلَمۡ نُهۡلِكِ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ ﴿
[ المرسلات: 16]
Did We not destroy the ancients?
English - Sahih International
Did We not destroy the former peoples?
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(77:16) Did We not destroy many a nation of the earlier times? *8
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
*8) This is an argument from history for the Hereafter, It means; "Consider your own history in the world. Whichever nations denied the Hereafter and took this worldly life to be real life and based their moral attitude on the results appearing here regarding them as the criterion of good and evil, ultimately went to their doom without exception This is a proof of the fact that the Hereafter is an actual reality overlooking and ignoring which causes the same kind of harm to a person which is caused when he chooses to close his eyes to the hard facts of life. (For further explanation, see E.N. 12 of Yunus, E.N. 86 of An-Naml, E.N. 8 of Ar-Rum, E.N. 25 of Saba).
Source : Al-Mursalat Verse 16: Did We not destroy the former peoples?