This is because your Lord would not destroy towns unjustly while their people were negligent.

And it did not beseem your Lord to have destroyed the towns tyrannously, while their people acted well.

And he enjoined on his family prayer and almsgiving, and was one in whom his Lord was well pleased.

And your Lord never destroyed the towns until He raised in their metropolis a messenger, reciting to them Our communications, and We never destroyed the towns except when their people were unjust.