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Surah 22. Al-Hajj, Ayah 48

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وَكَأَيِّن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ أَمْلَيْتُ لَهَا وَهِىَ ظَالِمَةٌ ثُمَّ أَخَذْتُهَا وَإِلَىَّ ٱلْمَصِيرُ

Wakaayyin min qaryatin amlaytu lah a wahiya th a limatun thumma akha th tuh a wailayya alma s eer u

And to how many a community that was im-mersed in evildoing have I given rein for a while! But then I took it to task: for with Me is all journeys' end!

- Mohammad Asad

There have been many townships teeming with wrong doings, to whom at first I gave respite and at the end I smote them. Towards Me is the destination of all.

- Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

Many are the societies whose end We delayed while they did wrong, then seized them. And to Me is the final return.

- Mustafa Khattab

And how many a township did I suffer long though it was sinful! Then I grasped it. Unto Me is the return.

- Marmaduke Pickthall

And to how many populations did I give respite which were given to wrong-doing? In the end I punished them. To Me is the destination (of all). ²⁸²⁷

- Abdullah Yusuf Ali