Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
For, how many a community that persisted in evildoing have We dashed into fragments, and raised another people in its stead
Arthur John Arberry
How many a city that was evildoing We have shattered, and set up after it another people
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
How many were the populations We utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples
Arabic
وَكَمۡ قَصَمۡنَا مِن قَرۡیَةࣲ كَانَتۡ ظَالِمَةࣰ وَأَنشَأۡنَا بَعۡدَهَا قَوۡمًا ءَاخَرِینَ ١١
Transliteration (2021)
wakam qaṣamnā min qaryatin kānat ẓālimatan wa-anshanā baʿdahā qawman ākharīn