﴿ أَهُمْ خَيْرٌ أَمْ قَوْمُ تُبَّعٍۢ وَٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ أَهْلَكْنَٰهُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ مُجْرِمِينَ ﴾

“Are they, then, better than the people of Tubba and those before them, whom We destroyed because they were truly lost in [the same] sin?”

God exalted be He says Are they better or the people of Tubba‘ — he was a prophet or a righteous man — and those communities before them? We destroyed because of their disbelief. In other words they are not mightier than those and yet they were destroyed; indeed they were criminals.