Have these who reject the oneness of Allah the Exalted and His worthiness alone of worship, and belie His Messenger Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, not known what befell the denying nations before them of destruction and annihilation, while We had empowered them in the earth with what We have not empowered for you O disbelievers, and We blessed them by sending down the rains and the flowing of rivers from beneath their dwellings; as a gradual leading and a granting of respite for them, then they disbelieved in the blessings of Allah and belied the messengers, so We destroyed them because of their sins, and We brought forth from after them other nations who succeeded them in the cultivation of the earth?