يُونُس : ٣٩

  • بَلۡ Nay
  • كَذَّبُواْ they denied
  • بِمَا what
  • لَمۡ not
  • يُحِيطُواْ they could encompass
  • بِعِلۡمِهِۦ (of) its knowledge
  • وَلَمَّا and not
  • يَأۡتِهِمۡ has come (to) them
  • تَأۡوِيلُهُۥۚ its interpretation
  • كَذَٰلِكَ Thus
  • كَذَّبَ denied
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those
  • مِن before them
  • قَبۡلِهِمۡۖ before them
  • فَٱنظُرۡ then see
  • كَيۡفَ how
  • كَانَ was
  • عَٰقِبَةُ (the) end
  • ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ (of) the wrongdoers
Rather, they have denied that which they encompass not in knowledge and whose interpretation has not yet come to them. Thus did those before them deny. Then observe how was the end of the wrongdoers.
God, exalted be He, says: Nay, but they denied that, the knowledge whereof they did not comprehend, that is, [they denied] Al-Qur'an and did not reflected upon it; and whereof the interpretation, the consequence of the threats [made] therein, has not yet come to them. So, in the same [manner of] denial, those who were before them denied, their messengers. Behold then what was the consequence for the evildoers!, for denying the messengers, in other words, [behold] how their affair was concluded, by their being destroyed. In a similar manner, We shall destroy these [people].