Surely many people before them had plotted in a similar manner to (vanquish the Truth), but Allah uprooted the whole structure of their plot from its foundations so that the roof fell in upon them, and the chastisement (of Allah) visited them from unknown directions.
かれら以前の者も（主の道に対して色々と）策謀した。だがアッラーはかれらの構造物を，土台から覆され，屋根が上から落ち，懲罰は予想しなかった方面からかれらに下った。