ٱلْمُؤْمِنُون : ٦٤

  • حَتَّىٰٓ Until
  • إِذَآ when
  • أَخَذۡنَا We seize
  • مُتۡرَفِيهِم their affluent ones
  • بِٱلۡعَذَابِ with the punishment
  • إِذَا behold!
  • هُمۡ They
  • يَجۡـَٔرُونَ cry for help
Until when We seize their affluent ones with punishment,1 at once they are crying [to Allāh] for help.
Footnotes
1 In worldly life, before the punishment of the Hereafter. Although general, the description includes specifically the punishment of the Quraysh by famine.
Indeed (hattaa is for inceptiveness) when We seize their affluent ones, their wealthy and their leaders, with chastisement, [with] the sword, on the day of Badr, behold! they are supplicating loudly, clamouring [in supplication]. It is [then] said to them: