The Saheeh International Quran Translation :
القول في تفسير قوله تعالي: سورة: الْكَهْف الآية:55
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And nothing has prevented the people from believing when guidance came to them and from asking forgiveness of their Lord except that there [must] befall them the [accustomed] precedent of the former peoples or that the punishment should come [directly] before them.