[1573] Faced with this most truthful fact, they could say nothing but admit guilt: “And how many a town have We destroyed because of its wrong doing, and We established after them a different people! *When they felt Our Might, they fled at once. *“Do not run, and come back to that which you were living lavishly in and your homes; so that you will be questioned.” *They cried: “Woe to us! We have surely been wrongdoers!” *That cry of theirs did not cease until We made them burnt-off stubble” (21: 11-15).