﴿ وَحَرَٰمٌ عَلَىٰ قَرْيَةٍ أَهْلَكْنَٰهَآ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ ﴾

“Hence, it has been unfailingly true of any community whom We have ever destroyed that they [were people who] would never turn back [from their sinful ways]”

(And there is a ban upon) an absence of success for (any community) for the people of Mecca: Abu Jahl and his host (which We have destroyed) which We have forsaken through their disbelief: (that they shall not return) to faith from their disbelief; it is also said that the verse means: it is forbidden for the people of Mecca, whom We have destroyed on the Day of Badr through killing them, to return to this worldly life,