Al-Mursalaat • EN-TAFSIR-IBN-ABBAS
﴿ أَلَمْ نُهْلِكِ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ﴾
“Did We not destroy [so many of] those [sinners] of olden days?”
(Destroyed We not the former folk) by means of death as well as chastisement,