Surah Al-An'am 6:131
ﱁ ﱂ ﱃ ﱄ ﱅ ﱆ ﱇ ﱈ ﱉ ﱊ
That is because your Lord would not destroy the cities for wrongdoing while their people were unaware.
Tafsir of Al-An'am 6:130-131
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Verse range: 6:130-131
98
That is, "We confess that one Messenger after the other came from You and informed us of the Truth but it was our own fault that we did not believe in what they said.''
99
They themselves would confess that they were not ignorant of the Truth: it did reach them but they deliberately rejected it.
100
It means that Allah does not desire to allow the guilty ones the opportunity to protest and say, "You did not inform us of the Truth, nor did You send anyone to show us the Right Way. But now when, in our ignorance we have adopted the wrong way, You are going to punish us for it." In order to refute this argument, Allah sent His Messengers and Books to fore-warn mankind and jinn, prior to the execution of His Judgments. If, in spite of this, the people choose wrong ways and are punished for this, they themselves are to blamed and not Allah.