﴿ 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?”

Allah said (Are they better) are your people better, (or the folk of Tubba') or the people of Himyar, whose name was As'ad Ibn Malkikarb and his agnomen was Abu Karb, he was called Tubba' because he had a great number of followers (and those before them) before the people of Tubba'? (We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty) they were idolaters. Would your people not fear that We destroy them and punish them?