but your lord is forgiving full of benevolence. if he had pleased to punish them for their doings he would have punished them immediately. but a term is fixed for them from which they will find no escape.
وربك الغفور ذو الرحمة لو يؤاخذهم بما كسبوا لعجل لهم العذاب بل لهم موعد لن يجدوا من دونه موئلا