they had sworn by allah with solemn oaths that if a warner were to come to them they would be better guided than any of the nations. but when a warner came to them it only increased their distance due to their domineering in the land and their devising of evil schemes and evil schemes beset only their authors. so do they await anything except the precedent of the ancients? yet you will never find any change in allahs precedent and you will never find any revision in allahs precedent.
وأقسموا بالله جهد أيمانهم لئن جاءهم نذير ليكونن أهدى من إحدى الأمم فلما جاءهم نذير ما زادهم إلا نفورا استكبارا في الأرض ومكر السيئ ولا يحيق المكر السيئ إلا بأهله فهل ينظرون إلا سنت الأولين فلن تجد لسنت الله تبديلا ولن تجد لسنت الله تحويلا