What is it that prevented mankind from believing when the guidance came to them, and from asking forgiveness of their Lord, except that they would like to be treated as the nations of yore, or that they would like to see the scourge come upon them face to face?
و چيزى مانع مردم نشد از اين كه وقتى هدايت به سويشان آمد ايمان بياورند و از پروردگارشان آمرزش بخواهند جز اين كه همان بلاها بر سرشان بيايد كه بر پيشينيان آمد يا عذاب رويارويشان درآيد [تا به خود آيند]