94. Wama arsalna fee qaryatin min nabiyyin illa akhathna ahlaha bialba/sa-i waalddarra-i laAAallahum yaddarraAAoona
94. Whenever We sent a prophet to a town, We took up its people in suffering and adversity, in order that they might learn humility.
95. Thumma baddalna makana alssayyi-ati alhasanata hatta AAafaw waqaloo qad massa abaana alddarrao waalssarrao faakhathnahum baghtatan wahum la yashAAuroona
95. Then We changed their suffering into prosperity, until they grew and multiplied, and began to say: "Our fathers (too) were touched by suffering and affluence" ... Behold! We called them to account of a sudden, while they realised not (their pe ril).
96. Walaw anna ahla alqura amanoo waittaqaw lafatahna AAalayhim barakatin mina alssama-i waal-ardi walakin kaththaboo faakhathnahum bima kanoo yaksiboona
96. If the people of the towns had but believed and feared God, We should indeed have opened out to them (All kinds of) blessings from heaven and earth; but they rejected (the truth), and We brought them to book for their misdeeds.
97. Afaamina ahlu alqura an ya/tiyahum ba/suna bayatan wahum na-imoona
97. Did the people of the towns feel secure against the coming of Our wrath by night while they were asleep?
98. Awa amina ahlu alqura an ya/tiyahum ba/suna duhan wahum yalAAaboona
98. Or else did they feel secure against its coming in broad daylight while they played about (care-free)?
99. Afaaminoo makra Allahi fala ya/manu makra Allahi illa alqawmu alkhasiroona
99. Did they then feel secure against the plan of God?- but no one can feel secure from the Plan of God, except those (doomed) to ruin!