Has there not reached them the news of those before them - the people of Noah and [the tribes of] ʿAad and Thamūd and the people of Abraham and the companions [i.e., dwellers] of Madyan and the towns overturned?1 Their messengers came to them with clear proofs. And Allāh would never have wronged them, but they were wronging themselves.
Translation: Saheeh International (English)
1 i.e., those to which Lot was sent and which earned for themselves Allāh's punishment. See 11:82-83.
وَٱلۡمُؤۡتَفِكَٰتِۚand the towns overturnedwal-mu'tafikāti
أَتَتۡهُمۡCame to thematathum
رُسُلُهُمtheir Messengersrusuluhum
بِٱلۡبَيِّنَٰتِۖwith clear proofsbil-bayināti
فَمَاAnd notfamā
كَانَwaskāna
ٱللَّهُAllahl-lahu
لِيَظۡلِمَهُمۡto wrong themliyaẓlimahum
وَلَٰكِنbutwalākin
كَانُوٓاْthey were (to)kānū
أَنفُسَهُمۡthemselvesanfusahum
يَظۡلِمُونَdoing wrongyaẓlimūna
Tafsir
Have the hypocrites not heard of what previous disbelieving communities did and what their end was? The news of the people of Noah, Hūd, Ṣāliḥ, Abraham, the inhabitants of Madyan and the towns of the nation of Lot? Their messengers came to them with clear proof and evidence. Allah was not unjust in punishing them, as their messengers had warned them, but they were unjust to themselves because of their disbelief in Allah and rejection of His messengers.