ٱلْفُرْقَان : ٢١

  • وَقَالَ And said
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • لَا (do) not
  • يَرۡجُونَ expect
  • لِقَآءَنَا (the) meeting with Us
  • لَوۡلَآ Why not
  • أُنزِلَ are sent down
  • عَلَيۡنَا to us
  • ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ the Angels
  • أَوۡ or
  • نَرَىٰ we see
  • رَبَّنَاۗ our Lord
  • لَقَدِ Indeed
  • ٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ they have become arrogant
  • فِيٓ within
  • أَنفُسِهِمۡ themselves
  • وَعَتَوۡ and (become) insolent
  • عُتُوّٗا (with) insolence
  • كَبِيرٗا great
And those who do not expect the meeting with Us say, "Why were not angels sent down to us, or [why] do we [not] see our Lord?" They have certainly become arrogant within themselves1 and [become] insolent with great insolence.
Footnotes
1 - Additional meanings are "among themselves" and "over [the matter of] themselves."
And those who do not expect to encounter Us, [those] who have no fear of the Resurrection, say, 'Why have the angels not been sent down to us, to act as messengers to us, or why do we not see our Lord?', so that we might be informed [by Him] that Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him is [truly] His Messenger? God, exalted be He, says: Assuredly they are full of arrogance within their souls and have become terribly insolent, in demanding to see God, exalted be He, in this world (read 'utuwwan, 'insolence' with the waaw, according to the original root form, as opposed to 'itiyyan with the [yaa'] substitution as in [soorat] Maryam [Q. 19:8]).