Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And never have We destroyed any community [for its wrongdoing] unless a divine writ had (previously] been made known to it
Arthur John Arberry
Never a city have We destroyed, but it had a known decree
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand
Arabic
وَمَاۤ أَهۡلَكۡنَا مِن قَرۡیَةٍ إِلَّا وَلَهَا كِتَابࣱ مَّعۡلُومࣱ ٤
Transliteration (2021)
wamā ahlaknā min qaryatin illā walahā kitābun maʿlūmu