Jonah
10. Yūnus
يونس
Page #214
10:51
أَثُمَّ
إِذَا
مَا
وَقَعَ
آمَنتُم
بِهِ
آلْآنَ
وَقَدْ
كُنتُم
بِهِ
تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ
ʾa-thumma ʾidhā mā waqaʿa ʾāmantum bihī ʾāl-ʾāna wa-qad kuntum bihī tastaʿjilūna
‘What! Do you believe it when it has befallen? Now? While you would seek to hasten it [earlier]?!’
— Ali Quli Qarai
"Would ye then believe in it at last, when it actually cometh to pass? (It will then be said): 'Ah! now? and ye wanted (aforetime) to hasten it on!'
