Do they not consider how many a generation We have destroyed before them, whom We had established in the earth as We have not established you, and We sent the clouds pouring rain on them in abundance, and We made the rivers to flow beneath them, then We destroyed them on account of their faults and raised up after them another generation.

And certainly We have established you in the earth and made in it means of livelihood for you; little it is that you give thanks.

He said: That in which my Lord has established me is better, therefore you only help me with workers, I will make a fortified barrier between you and them;

Then We made him a small seed in a firm resting-place,

And certainly We had established them in what We have not established you in, and We had given-- them ears and eyes and hearts, but neither their ears, nor their eyes, nor their hearts availed them aught, since they denied the communications of Allah, and that which they mocked encompassed them.

Then We placed it in a secure resting-place,