﴿ أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ نَبَؤُا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِن قَبْلُ فَذَاقُوا۟ وَبَالَ أَمْرِهِمْ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۭ ﴾

“HAVE THE STORIES of those who, in earlier times, refused to acknowledge the truth never yet come within your ken? [They denied it -] and so they had to taste the evil outcome of their own doings, with [more] grievous suffering awaiting them [in the life to come]:”

(Hath not the story) the event (reached you) O people of Mecca (of those who disbelieved of old) of the nations who were before, how We dealt with them (and so did taste the ill effects of their conduct) and so did taste the punishment they deserved in the life of the world by being chastised and destroyed, (and theirs will be a painful doom) in the Hereafter.