﴿ وَلَوْلَآ أَن تُصِيبَهُم مُّصِيبَةٌۢ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ فَيَقُولُوا۟ رَبَّنَا لَوْلَآ أَرْسَلْتَ إِلَيْنَا رَسُولًۭا فَنَتَّبِعَ ءَايَٰتِكَ وَنَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ﴾

“and [We have sent thee] lest they say [on Judg­ment Day], when disaster befalls them as an outcome of what their own hands have wrought, “O our Sus­tainer, if only Thou had sent an apostle unto us, we would have followed Thy messages, and would have been among those who believe!””

(Otherwise, if disaster should afflict them) if the chastisement of the Day of Judgement afflicted your people, the Quraysh, (because of that which their own hands have sent before (them)) because of what they had earned in their state of disbelief, (they might say) upon the coming of the torment of the Day of Judgement on them: (Our Lord!) O our Lord! (Why sentest Thou no messenger unto us) with a Scripture before You chastised us, (that we might have followed Your revelations) Your Scripture and Messenger (and been of the believers) in the Scripture and Messenger? If it were otherwise, We would have destroyed them before you, but We have sent them the Qur'an so that they do not have any excuse against Us.