﴿ وَلَقَدْ مَكَّنَّٰهُمْ فِيمَآ إِن مَّكَّنَّٰكُمْ فِيهِ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُمْ سَمْعًۭا وَأَبْصَٰرًۭا وَأَفْـِٔدَةًۭ فَمَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُمْ سَمْعُهُمْ وَلَآ أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ وَلَآ أَفْـِٔدَتُهُم مِّن شَىْءٍ إِذْ كَانُوا۟ يَجْحَدُونَ بِـَٔايَٰتِ ٱللَّهِ وَحَاقَ بِهِم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ ﴾

“And yet, We had established them securely in a manner in which We have never established you, [O people of later times;] and We had endowed them with hearing, and sight, and [knowledgeable] hearts: but neither their hearing, nor their sight, nor their hearts were of the least avail to them, seeing that they went on rejecting God’s messages; and [in the end] they were overwhelmed by the very thing which they had been wont to deride.”

ولقد يسَّرنا لعاد أسباب التمكين في الدنيا على نحوٍ لم نمكنكم فيه معشر كفار قريش، وجعلنا لهم سمعًا يسمعون به، وأبصارًا يبصرون بها، وأفئدة يعقلون بها، فاستعملوها فيما يسخط الله عليهم، فلم تغن عنهم شيئًا إذ كانوا يكذِّبون بحجج الله، ونزل بهم من العذاب ما سخروا به واستعجلوه. وهذا وعيد من الله جل شأنه، وتحذير للكافرين.