Too Late

If only you could see when they are seized with terror, with no escape, and taken from a place nearby.

34:51Couldst thou but see when they are terrified with no escape, and are seized from near at hand,

And they will say, “We believe in it!” But how can they reach it from such a distant place?

34:52And say: We (now) believe therein. But how can they reach (faith) from afar off,

They already disbelieved in it before, and they cast doubt from afar.

34:53When they disbelieved in it of yore. They aim at the unseen from afar off.

And a barrier will be placed between them and what they desire, as was done with their kind before. They were truly in disturbing doubt.

34:54And a gulf is set between them and that which they desire, as was done for people of their kind of old. Lo! they were in hopeless doubt.