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Have they not travelled in the land and beheld how was the consequence for those before them?, of [past] communities, which was that they were destroyed for denying their messengers (rusul). They were more powerful than them - such were 'ād and Thamūd - and they effected the land, they tilled it and churned it up to sow crops and cultivate [trees], and developed it more than these, the Meccan disbelievers, have developed it; and their messengers (rusul) brought them clear signs, manifest proofs, for Allahu ta’ālā would never wrong them, by destroying them without being guilty, but they used to wrong themselves, by denying their messengers (rusul).