(As to those) before them, not one of the populations which We destroyed believed: will these believe?
مَا آمَنَتْ قَبْلَہُمْ مِنْ قَرْیَتِنْ اَہْلَکْنَاہَا اَفَہُمْ یُؤْمِنُونَ
No town before them ever believed — meaning none of its inhabitants — of those that We destroyed for the denial of the signs brought to them. Would they then believe? No.