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.
前人确已用计谋，但真主把他们的建筑物彻底加以摧毁，而他们的屋顶落在他们的身上。刑罚从他们料想不到的地方来临他们。