Nothing has kept these people from believing and pleading to their Lord for forgiveness when guidance came to them, except [their demand] that the precedent of the ancients come to pass for them, or that the punishment come to them, face to face.
當正道來臨眾人的時候，他們不信道，也不向他們的主求饒，那只是因為他們要等待（真主將）古人的常道顯現於他們，或眼見刑罰來臨他們。