Overall meaning : Say to the unbelieving idolaters, Muhammad, ‘It is Allah alone who has brought you into being and has endowed you with hearing, sight and hearts. Yet little do you give thanks to Allah for what He has given you!’
Say to them, ‘It is He who has scattered you all over the earth, and before Him alone will you all be gathered for judgement.’
The unbelieving idolaters mockingly say, ‘When will this resurrection and gathering before Allah with which you threaten us take place, if what you say is true?’ Say to them, Muhammad, ‘Allah alone has knowledge of that. I am sent only to warn you plainly of Allah’s punishment!’
But when the unbelievers see the punishment of which they have been warned drawing near, they will be terrified of its sight and their faces will turn ugly and be grief-stricken; and they will be reproachfully told on Resurrection Day, ‘This is the very punishment which you mockingly asked for its coming to be hastened in the life of the world!’