"[Has there not reached them the news of those before them]" up to His saying: "[and the overturned ones (al-mu'tafikat)]." He says: Yes, their news has indeed reached them in what Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) has revealed in His Book. "[And the overturned ones]" means: those that were turned over; they are the three towns of the people of Lot, which Gabriel lifted with his wing and then overturned. "[And Allah would not have wronged them]" by destroying them, "[but they were wronging themselves]" by their denial and their shirk (polytheism). He warns these [people] of what was done to those before them.

Surah at-Tawbah from verse (71) to verse (72).