ٱلنَّحْل : ٣٣

  • هَلۡ Do
  • يَنظُرُونَ they wait
  • إِلَّآ except
  • أَن that
  • تَأۡتِيَهُمُ (should) come to them
  • ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ the Angels
  • أَوۡ or
  • يَأۡتِيَ (should) come
  • أَمۡرُ (the) Command
  • رَبِّكَۚ (of) your Lord
  • كَذَٰلِكَ Thus
  • فَعَلَ did
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • مِن (were) before them
  • قَبۡلِهِمۡۚ (were) before them
  • وَمَا And not
  • ظَلَمَهُمُ wronged them
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • وَلَٰكِن but
  • كَانُوٓاْ they were
  • أَنفُسَهُمۡ themselves
  • يَظۡلِمُونَ wronging
Do they [i.e., the disbelievers] await except that the angels should come to them or there comes the command of your Lord? Thus did those do before them. And Allāh wronged them not, but they had been wronging themselves.
Do they, the disbelievers, await anything but that the angels should come to them (read [feminine person] ta'teehim or [masculine] ya'teehim) to seize their spirits, or that there should come your Lord's command?, chastisement, or the resurrection that entails it. So, just as these have done, did those before them, from among the [former] communities: they denied their messengers and were therefore destroyed. And God did not wrong them, destroying them for no sin, but they used to wrong themselves, through disbelief.