﴿ أَفَلَمْ يَدَّبَّرُوا۟ ٱلْقَوْلَ أَمْ جَآءَهُم مَّا لَمْ يَأْتِ ءَابَآءَهُمُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ﴾

“Have they, then, never tried to understand this word [of God]? Or has there [now] come to them something that never came to their forefathers of old?”

(Have they not pondered the Word) have they not reflected upon the Qur'an and that which it contains of threats, (or hath that come unto them) upon the people of Mecca, of safety and freedom from obligation (which came not unto their fathers of old?