Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
and set them up as a warning example for their time and for all times to come, as well as an admonition to all who are conscious of God
Arthur John Arberry
And We made it a punishment exemplary for all the former times and for the latter, and an admonition to such as are godfearing
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
So We made it an example to their own time and to their posterity, and a lesson to those who fear Allah
Arabic
فَجَعَلۡنَـٰهَا نَكَـٰلࣰا لِّمَا بَیۡنَ یَدَیۡهَا وَمَا خَلۡفَهَا وَمَوۡعِظَةࣰ لِّلۡمُتَّقِینَ ٦٦
Transliteration (2021)
fajaʿalnāhā nakālan limā bayna yadayhā wamā khalfahā wamawʿiẓatan lil'muttaqīn