Sura al-Ṭūr 52:26

قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا كُنَّا قَبْلُ فِىٓ أَهْلِنَا مُشْفِقِينَ

qālū innā kunnā qablu fī ahlinā mushfiqīna

They will say: "Aforetime, we were not without fear for the sake of our people.

Sura al-Ṭūr 52:30

أَمْ يَقُولُونَ شَاعِرٌ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِۦ رَيْبَ ٱلْمَنُونِ

am yaqūlūna shāʿirun natarabbaṣu bihi rayba l-manūni

Or do they say:- "A Poet! we await for him some calamity (hatched) by Time!"

Sura al-Ṭūr 52:31

قُلْ تَرَبَّصُوا۟ فَإِنِّى مَعَكُم مِّنَ ٱلْمُتَرَبِّصِينَ

qul tarabbaṣū fa-innī maʿakum mina l-mutarabbiṣīna

Say thou: "Await ye!- I too will wait along with you!"

Sura al-Ṭūr 52:33

أَمْ يَقُولُونَ تَقَوَّلَهُۥ بَل لَّا يُؤْمِنُونَ

am yaqūlūna taqawwalahu bal lā yuʾminūna

Or do they say, "He fabricated the (Message)"? Nay, they have no faith!

Sura al-Ṭūr 52:44

وَإِن يَرَوْا۟ كِسْفًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ سَاقِطًا يَقُولُوا۟ سَحَابٌ مَّرْكُومٌ

wa-in yaraw kisfan mina l-samāʾi sāqiṭan yaqūlū saḥābun markūmun

Were they to see a piece of the sky falling (on them), they would (only) say: "Clouds gathered in heaps!"