and if we hold back from them the punishment until a stated period of time they will certainly say what prevents it? now surely on the day when it will come to them it shall not be averted from them and that which they scoffed at shall beset them.
ولئن أخرنا عنهم العذاب إلى أمة معدودة ليقولن ما يحبسه ألا يوم يأتيهم ليس مصروفا عنهم وحاق بهم ما كانوا به يستهزئون