Overall meaning : None but the unbelievers use fallacious arguments to dispute Allah’s signs bearing witness to His oneness. Do not, therefore, be deceived, Muhammad, by the prosperity they enjoy and the ease and plenty in which they live despite their unbelief.
Before them Noah’s people also disbelieved, and so did the the communities after them that joined forces against their messengers. Each community of those allied forces of unbelief plotted against the messenger sent to them to kill him, and disputed with him using fallacious arguments to refute the truth; but then I seized them with a severe punishment. Terrible indeed was My retribution!
Just as My punishment was justly meted out to the past unbelieving nations in this world, so My torment will justly be meted out to them in the life to come: they will be the inhabitants of the Fire!