( أولم يسيروا في الأرض فينظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين كانوا من قبلهم كانوا هم أشد منهم قوة ) قرأ ابن عامر : " منكم " بالكاف ، وكذلك هو في مصاحفهم ، ( وآثارا في الأرض ) فلم ينفعهم ذلك ( فأخذهم الله بذنوبهم وما كان لهم من الله من واق ) يدفع عنهم العذاب .
Have these idolaters not travelled on earth, so that they can ponder how the outcome was of the nations before them who denied, as it was a bad end? Those nations were stronger than they are, and they left an impression on earth by buildings which these people have not left, but Allah destroyed them because of their sins, and they had nobody to protect them from the punishment of Allah.