فَأَهۡلَكۡنَآ أَشَدَّ مِنۡهُم بَطۡشٗا وَمَضَىٰ مَثَلُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ

Fa ahlaknaaa ashadda minhum batshanw wa madaa masalul awwaleen

So We destroyed (them)- stronger in power than these;- and (thus) has passed on the Parable of the peoples of old.

— Az-Zukhruf (ٱلزُّخْرُف), 43:8