And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allah

And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allah, We would have opened [i.e., bestowed] upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth; but they denied [the messengers], so We seized them for what they were earning.[1]

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And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allah