What is it that prevented mankind from believing when the guidance came to them, and from asking forgiveness of their Lord, except that they would like to be treated as the nations of yore, or that they would like to see the scourge come upon them face to face?
何ものも，人びとの信仰を妨げるものはない。既にかれら（マッカの不信心者たち）に御導きが下ったから，主に赦しを請えばよい。さもなければ昔の者の（被ったような）ことがかれらを襲うか，または懲罰が，間近くかれらに下る外あるまい。