وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ اَكْثَرُ الْاَوَّلِيْنَۙ ( الصافات: ٧١ )
walaqad
وَلَقَدْ
And verily
ḍalla
ضَلَّ
went astray
qablahum
قَبْلَهُمْ
before them
aktharu
أَكْثَرُ
most
l-awalīna
ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
(of) the former (people)
Wa laqad dalla qablahum aksarul awwaleen (aṣ-Ṣāffāt 37:71)
Sahih International:
And there had already strayed before them most of the former peoples, (As-Saffat [37] : 71)
1 Mufti Taqi Usmani
Most of the earlier ones (too) had gone astray before them.