Had We destroyed them with a punishment before this, they would have said: 'Our Lord, why did You not send us a Messenger so that we could have followed Your verses before we were humiliated and degraded'
و اگر ما آنان را قبل از [آمدن قرآن‌] به عذابى هلاك مى‌كرديم، قطعاً مى‌گفتند: «پروردگارا، چرا پيامبرى به سوى ما نفرستادى تا پيش از آنكه خوار و رسوا شويم از آيات تو پيروى كنيم؟»