Why then were there not found from the past centuries remnants from the people of good and rectitude, forbidding the people of disbelief from their disbelief, and from the corruption in the earth, none was found from those peoples except a few from who believed, so Allah rescued them because of that from His punishment when He took the wrongdoers. And the generality of them from those who wronged themselves followed what they were granted enjoyment therein of the delights of the world and its bliss, and they were criminal wrongdoers by their following what they were given bliss therein, so the punishment became necessitated upon them.