and thus it is if we defer their suffering until a timelimit set they are sure to say what is preventing it ? oh verily on the day when it befalls them there will be nothing to avert it from them and they shall be overwhelmed by the very thing which they were wont to deride.
ولئن أخرنا عنهم العذاب إلى أمة معدودة ليقولن ما يحبسه ألا يوم يأتيهم ليس مصروفا عنهم وحاق بهم ما كانوا به يستهزئون