43:8 fa ahlaknaa ashad-da minhum baTshaw wa maDaa mathalul aw-waliyn

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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
We therefore destroyed the people who were more forceful than these, and the example of the earlier ones has already gone by.

Yusuf Ali:
So We destroyed (them)- stronger in power than these;- and (thus) has passed on the Parable of the peoples of old.

Pickthal:
Then We destroyed men mightier than these in prowess; and the example of the men of old hath gone (before them).