﴿ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَخَذْنَا مُتْرَفِيهِم بِٱلْعَذَابِ إِذَا هُمْ يَجْـَٔرُونَ ﴾

“until - after We shall have taken to task, through suffering, those from among them who [now] are lost in the pursuit of pleasures - they cry out in [belated] supplication.”

Indeed hattā is for inceptiveness when We seize their affluent ones their wealthy and their leaders with chastisement with the sword on the day of Badr behold! they are supplicating loudly clamouring in supplication. It is then said to them