And certainly a lasting chastisement overtook them in the morning.

And already We overtook them with chastisement, but they were not submissive to their Lord, nor do they humble themselves.

So the rumbling overtook them in the morning; / And what they earned did not avail them.

And they ask you to hasten on the chastisement; and had not a term been appointed, the chastisement would certainly have come to them; and most certainly it will come to them all of a sudden while they will not perceive.

What! as for him then against whom the sentence of chastisement is due: What! can you save him who is in the fire? / But (as for) those who are careful of (their duty to) their Lord, they shall have high places, above them higher places, built (for them), beneath which flow rivers; (this is) the promise of Allah: Allah will not fail in (His) promise.

And how many a town to which I gave respite while it was unjust, then I overtook it, and to Me is the return.