94. Wama arsalna fee qaryatin min nabiyyin illa akhathna ahlaha biAlba/sa-i waALddarra-i laAAallahum yaddarraAAoonA
94. Whenever We sent a prophet
To a town, We took up
Its people in suffering
And adversity, in order
That they might learn humility.
95. Thumma baddalna makana aLssayyi-ati alhasanata hatta AAafaw waqaloo qad massa abaana aLddarrao waALssarrao faakhathnahum baghtatan wahum la yashAAuroonA
95. Then We changed their suffering
Into prosperity, until they grew
And multiplied, and began
To say: "Our fathers (too)
Were touched by suffering
And affluence" Behold!
We called them to account
Of a sudden, while they
Realised not (their peril).
96. Walaw anna ahla alqura amanoo waIttaqaw lafatahna AAalayhim barakatin mina aLssama-i waAl-ardi walakin kaththaboo faakhathnahum bima kanoo yaksiboonA
96. If the people of the towns
Had but believed and feared
God, We should indeed
Have opened out to them
(All kinds of) blessings
From heaven and earth;
But they rejected (the truth),
And We brought them
To book for their misdeeds.
97. Afaamina ahlu alqura an ya/tiyahum ba/suna bayatan wahum na-imoonA