قوله عز وجل ( هل ينظرون إلا أن تأتيهم الملائكة ) لقبض أرواحهم ، ( أو يأتي أمر ربك ) يعني يوم القيامة ، وقيل : العذاب . ( كذلك فعل الذين من قبلهم ) أي : كفروا ، ( وما ظلمهم الله ) بتعذيبه إياهم ، ( ولكن كانوا أنفسهم يظلمون )
Are these denying idolaters waiting for anything but the angel of death and his aides to come to take their souls and strike their faces and their backs, or for Allah’s command to come to eradicate them by means of a punishment in the world? Similar to those idolaters who came before who were destroyed because if their idolatry; so too the idolaters of Makkah may perhaps meet the same fate. Allah did not wrong them when He destroyed them but they wronged their own souls by bringing them to the point of destruction because of their disbelief in Allah.