and they ask you to hasten on the chastisement and had not a term been appointed the chastisement would certainly have come to them and most certainly it will come to them all of a sudden while they will not perceive.
ويستعجلونك بالعذاب ولولا أجل مسمى لجاءهم العذاب وليأتينهم بغتة وهم لا يشعرون