and indeed we sent our messages unto people before thy time and visited them with misfortune and hardship so that they might humble themselves yet when the misfortune decreed by us befell them they did not humble themselves but rather their hearts grew hard for satan had made all their doings seem goodly to them.
ولقد أرسلنا إلى أمم من قبلك فأخذناهم بالبأساء والضراء لعلهم يتضرعون فلولا إذ جاءهم بأسنا تضرعوا ولكن قست قلوبهم وزين لهم الشيطان ما كانوا يعملون