had we destroyed them with a chastisement aforetime they would have said our lord why didst thou not send us a messenger so that we might have followed thy signs before that we were humiliated and degraded?
ولو أنا أهلكناهم بعذاب من قبله لقالوا ربنا لولا أرسلت إلينا رسولا فنتبع آياتك من قبل أن نذل ونخزى