Mary
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[19:74]
And yet, how many a generation have We destroyed before their time – [people] who surpassed them in material power and in outward show!

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* v.74 : Lit., “in property” or “abundance of property.” In this context – as in the last verse of this sūrah – the term qarn apparently signifies “people of one and the same epoch,” i.e., a “civilization.”