﴿ مَآ ءَامَنَتْ قَبْلَهُم مِّن قَرْيَةٍ أَهْلَكْنَٰهَآ ۖ أَفَهُمْ يُؤْمِنُونَ ﴾

“Not one of the communities that We destroyed in bygone times would ever believe [their prophets]: will these, then, [be more willing to] believe?”

Allah then says: (Not a township) not a single population of a township (believed of those which We destroyed) when they disbelieved in the signs (before them) before your people: (would they then believe) would your people then believe in the signs? Nay, they will not.