الماۤئدة — Al-Ma'idah Ayat 26
قَالَ فَاِنَّهَا مُحَرَّمَةٌ عَلَيْهِمْ اَرْبَعِيْنَ سَنَةً ۚيَتِيْهُوْنَ فِى الْاَرْضِۗ فَلَا تَأْسَ عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْفٰسِقِيْنَ ࣖ
Qāla fa innahā muḥarramatun ‘alaihim arba‘īna sanah(tan), yatīhūna fil-arḍ(i), falā ta'sa ‘alal qaumil-fāsiqīn(a).
"[Allah] said, "Then indeed, it is forbidden to them for forty years [in which] they will wander throughout the land. So do not grieve over the defiantly disobedient people.""