And We had firmly established them in a (prosperity and) power which We have not given to you (ye Quraish!) and We had endowed them with (faculties of) hearing, seeing, heart and intellect: but of no profit to them were their (faculties of) hearing, sight, and heart and intellect, when they went on rejecting the Signs of Allah; and they were (completely) encircled by that which they used to mock at!
ما به آنها [= قوم عاد] قدرتی دادیم که به شما ندادیم، و برای آنان گوش و چشم و دل قرار دادیم؛ (امّا به هنگام نزول عذاب) نه گوشها و چشمها و نه عقلهایشان برای آنان هیچ سودی نداشت، چرا که آیات خدا را انکار می‌کردند؛ و سرانجام آنچه را استهزا می‌کردند بر آنها وارد شد!