وَلَقَدِ
ٱسْتُهْزِئَ
بِرُسُلٍۢ
مِّن
قَبْلِكَ
فَأَمْلَيْتُ
لِلَّذِينَ
كَفَرُوا۟
ثُمَّ
أَخَذْتُهُمْ ۖ
فَكَيْفَ
كَانَ
عِقَابِ
٣٢
Many messengers before you [Muhammad] were mocked, but I granted respite to the disbelievers: in the end, I took them to task- how terrible My punishment was!
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem