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quran:12:109

And We sent not before you ˹as messengers˺ except men to whom We revealed from among the people of cities. So have they not traveled through the earth and observed how was the end of those before them? And the home of the Hereafter is best for those who fear Allah; then will you not reason?  

And We did not send before you ˹any messengers˺ save men inspired by revelation (yūhā ilayhim: a variant reading has nūhī ilayhim, ‘to whom We revealed’) — and not angels — from among the people of the towns, the principal towns, since they are more knowledgeable and wiser than the people of the desert, who are crude and ignorant. Have they, the people of Mecca, not travelled in the land and seen the nature of the consequence for those who were before them?, that is, how they ended up, when they were destroyed for denying their messengers? And verily the abode of the Hereafter, that is, Paradise, is better for those who are wary, of God. Will they not understand? (read a-fa-lā ya‘qilūn, or a-fa-lā ta‘qilūn. ‘Will you not understand?’), this, O people of Mecca, and so have faith?
القرآن:١٢:١٠٩

وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ إِلَّا رِجَالًا نُوحِي إِلَيْهِمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْقُرَىٰ ۗ أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَيَنْظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ ۗ وَلَدَارُ الْآخِرَةِ خَيْرٌ لِلَّذِينَ اتَّقَوْا ۗ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ  

{وما أرسلنا من قبلك إلا رجالا يوحى} وفي قراءة بالنون وكسر الحاء {إليهم} لا ملائكة {من أهل القرى} الأمصار لأنهم أعلم وأحلم بخلاف أهل البوادي لجفائهم وجهلهم {أفلم يسيروا} أهل مكة {في الأرض فينظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين من قبلهم} أي آخر أمرهم من إهلاكهم بتكذيبهم رسلهم {ولدار الآخرة} أي الجنة {خير للذين اتقوا} الله {أفلا تعقلون} بالياء والتاء يا أهل مكة هذا فتؤمنون.