﴿ بَلْ مَتَّعْتُ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَءَابَآءَهُمْ حَتَّىٰ جَآءَهُمُ ٱلْحَقُّ وَرَسُولٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ ﴾

“Now [as for those who did come after him,] I allowed them - as [I had allowed] their forebears - to enjoy their lives freely until the truth should come unto them through an apostle who would make all things clear:”

Nay but I have let these idolaters and their fathers enjoy life without hastening to punish them until there came to them the truth the Qur’ān and a messenger who makes things clear one who manifests to them the stipulations of the Law — and this messenger is Muhammad (s).