Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
For, never would thy Sustainer destroy a community for wrong [beliefs alone] so long as its people behave righteously [towards one another]
Arthur John Arberry
Yet thy Lord would never destroy the cities unjustly, while as yet their people were putting things right
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Nor would thy Lord be the One to destroy communities for a single wrong-doing, if its members were likely to mend
Arabic
وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ لِیُهۡلِكَ ٱلۡقُرَىٰ بِظُلۡمࣲ وَأَهۡلُهَا مُصۡلِحُونَ ١١٧
Transliteration (2021)
wamā kāna rabbuka liyuh'lika l-qurā biẓul'min wa-ahluhā muṣ'liḥūn