and if we delay for them the doom until a reckoned time they will surely say what withholdeth it? verily on the day when it cometh unto them it cannot be averted from them and that which they derided will surround them.
ولئن أخرنا عنهم العذاب إلى أمة معدودة ليقولن ما يحبسه ألا يوم يأتيهم ليس مصروفا عنهم وحاق بهم ما كانوا به يستهزئون