And certainly there has already come to them the important accounts (concerning the fate of the ancients) in which there is provision of abstaining (from obstinately following the wrong course)
Indeed, there has come to them news in which there is deterrence.
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
In fact they have received narratives of the fate of those who denied Allah; narratives instructive and informative enough to induce them to reject the path of falsehood and recourse to the path of safety and righteousness