And nothing has prevented the people from believing when guidance came to them and from asking forgiveness of their Lord except that there [must] befall them the [accustomed] precedent of the former peoples or that the punishment should come [directly] before them.
و بازنداشت مردم را از آنکه ایمان آرند گاهی که بیامدشان هدایت و از آنکه آمرزش خواهند از پروردگار خویش جز آنکه بیایدشان شیوه پیشینیان یا بیایدشان عذاب روی بروی‌