إِبْرَاهِيم : ٤٤

  • وَأَنذِرِ And warn
  • ٱلنَّاسَ the mankind
  • يَوۡمَ (of) a Day
  • يَأۡتِيهِمُ (when) will come to them
  • ٱلۡعَذَابُ the punishment
  • فَيَقُولُ then will say
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • ظَلَمُواْ did wrong
  • رَبَّنَآ Our Lord
  • أَخِّرۡنَآ Respite us
  • إِلَىٰٓ for
  • أَجَلٖ a term
  • قَرِيبٖ short
  • نُّجِبۡ we will answer
  • دَعۡوَتَكَ Your call
  • وَنَتَّبِعِ and we will follow
  • ٱلرُّسُلَۗ the Messengers
  • أَوَلَمۡ Had not
  • تَكُونُوٓاْ you
  • أَقۡسَمۡتُم sworn
  • مِّن before
  • قَبۡلُ before
  • مَا not
  • لَكُم for you
  • مِّن any
  • زَوَالٖ end
And, [O Muḥammad], warn the people of a Day when the punishment will come to them and those who did wrong will say, "Our Lord, delay us for a short term; we will answer Your call and follow the messengers." [But it will be said], "Had you not sworn, before, that for you there would be no cessation?1
Footnotes
1 Of the blessings which Allāh had bestowed upon you during life on earth.
And warn, make [them] have fear, O Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, mankind, the disbelievers, of the day when chastisement will come upon them, namely, the Day of Resurrection, and those who did evil, who disbelieved, will say, 'Our Lord, give us respite, by returning us to the world, for a brief while, that we might respond to Your call, by affirming [Your] Oneness, and follow the messengers'. It is then said to them in rebuke: 'But did you not use to swear formerly, in the world, that for you there would be no passing [away]? (min zawaalin: min is extra) from this [world] to the Hereafter?