Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Did We not destroy [so many of] those [sinners] of olden days
Arthur John Arberry
Did We not destroy the ancients
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Did We not destroy the men of old (for their evil)
Arabic
أَلَمۡ نُهۡلِكِ ٱلۡأَوَّلِینَ ١٦
Transliteration (2021)
alam nuh'liki l-awalīn