Muhammad 47:13
Muhammad · ayah 13 of 38
وَكَأَيِّن مِّن قَرْيَةٍ هِىَ أَشَدُّ قُوَّةًۭ مِّن قَرْيَتِكَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَخْرَجَتْكَ أَهْلَكْنَٰهُمْ فَلَا نَاصِرَ لَهُمْ
Wakaayyin min qaryatin hiya ashaddu quwwatanmin qaryatika allatee akhrajatka ahlaknahum fala nasiralahum
"And how many a city was stronger than your city [i.e., Makkah] which drove you out? We destroyed them; and there was no helper for them."
Saheeh International translation
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Other English translations
Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+
"We have destroyed many a town stronger than your own [Prophet]- the town which [chose to] expel you- and they had no one to help them."
Pickthall (classic)+
"And how many a township stronger than thy township (O Muhammad) which hath cast thee out, have We destroyed, and they had no helper!"
Yusuf Ali (classic)+
"And how many cities, with more power than thy city which has driven thee out, have We destroyed (for their sins)? and there was none to aid them."