Overall meaning : Pharaoh and his people also received warnings of Our punishment, but they denied all Our signs, and so We inflicted such a punishment on them that can only be carried out by the Almighty, the Omnipotent!
Now, People of Quraysh, are your unbelievers better than those I destroyed because of their stubborn unbelief, or have you been granted immunity from the punishment of your Lord in the previous divine scriptures?
Or do the Quraysh unbelievers say, ‘We are a great army and we will be victorious’? All their forces will be defeated and put to flight by the Muslims! The Day of Judgement is their appointed time of punishment. What they suffer now is only the forerunner of what they will experience in the next; indeed, the Day of Judgement will be more grievous and more bitter than all their afflictions in this life!