He said, "What then has happened to the previous generations?
Translation endnotes
[20:51-52] Modern polytheists and unappreciative people, when they do not have the intellectual courage to accept truth, in order to avoid acknowledging the truth, ask exactly the same question Pharaoh asked millennia ago. While delivering the monotheistic message of the Quran, while sharing the signs and miracles of the Quran, if you encounter similar excuses, you should use exactly the same answer given by Moses in verse 20:52. Verse 20:52 also rejects the distorted or mistranslated Biblical verse depicting God to be like a fallible human being regretting his mistakes or forgetting things (Genesis 6:6-7; Psalms 13:1; Lamentations 5:20). See 7:180.