if we defer their punishment for a certain time they will say what is keeping it back? and yet the day it comes they will not be able to avert it and what they used to laugh at will encompass them.
ولئن أخرنا عنهم العذاب إلى أمة معدودة ليقولن ما يحبسه ألا يوم يأتيهم ليس مصروفا عنهم وحاق بهم ما كانوا به يستهزئون