ص : ١٥

  • وَمَا And not
  • يَنظُرُ await
  • هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ these
  • إِلَّا but
  • صَيۡحَةٗ a shout
  • وَٰحِدَةٗ one
  • مَّا not
  • لَهَا for it
  • مِن any
  • فَوَاقٖ delay
And these [disbelievers] await not but one blast [of the Horn]; for it there will be no delay.1
Footnotes
1 - Or "respite." More literally, "a period between two milkings of a she-camel," which also alludes to the meanings of "return" or "repetition."
And these, that is, the disbelievers of Mecca, do not await but a single Cry, namely, the Blast of the Resurrection that will herald chastisement for them, for which there will be no revoking (read fawaaq or fuwaaq).