وَكَمْ قَصَمْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ كَانَتْ ظَالِمَةً وَأَنْشَأْنَا بَعْدَهَا قَوْمًا آخَرِينَ ١١
How many were the populations We utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples?
21:12
فَلَمَّا أَحَسُّوا بَأْسَنَا إِذَا هُمْ مِنْهَا يَرْكُضُونَ ١٢
Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.
21:13
لَا تَرْكُضُوا وَارْجِعُوا إِلَىٰ مَا أُتْرِفْتُمْ فِيهِ وَمَسَاكِنِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُسْأَلُونَ ١٣
Flee not, but return to the good things of this life which were given you, and to your homes in order that ye may be called to account.
21:14
قَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ ١٤
They said: "Ah! woe to us! We were indeed wrong-doers!"
21:15
فَمَا زَالَتْ تِلْكَ دَعْوَاهُمْ حَتَّىٰ جَعَلْنَاهُمْ حَصِيدًا خَامِدِينَ ١٥
And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is mown, as ashes silent and quenched.