6:6 alam yaraw kam ahlaknaa min qablihim min qarnim mak-kan-naahum fiyl arDi maa lam numak-kil lakum wa arsalnas samaa-a ‘Alayhim midraaraa* wa ja’Alnal anhaara tajriy min taHtihim fa ahlaknaahum bi dhunuubihim wa ansha’naa mim ba’Ådihim qarnan aakhariyn

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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
Do they not see how many civilisations We destroyed before them, whom We had established more firmly in the earth than We have established you, and We sent on them abundant rain from the sky, and made the rivers flow beneath them? So we destroyed them because of their sins, and created another civilisation after them.

Yusuf Ali:
See they not how many of those before them We did destroy?- generations We had established on the earth, in strength such as We have not given to you - for whom We poured out rain from the skies in abundance, and gave (fertile) streams flowing beneath their (feet): yet for their sins We destroyed them, and raised in their wake fresh generations (to succeed them).

Pickthal:
See they not how many a generation We destroyed before them, whom We had established in the earth more firmly than We have established you, and We shed on them abundant showers from the sky, and made the rivers flow beneath them. Yet we destroyed them for their sins, and created after them another generation.