قَالُوا إِنَّا كُنَّا قَبْلُ فِي أَهْلِنَا مُشْفِقِينَ ٢٦
They will say: "Aforetime, we were not without fear for the sake of our people.
52:27
فَمَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَيْنَا وَوَقَانَا عَذَابَ السَّمُومِ ٢٧
"But Allah has been good to us, and has delivered us from the Penalty of the Scorching Wind.
52:28
إِنَّا كُنَّا مِنْ قَبْلُ نَدْعُوهُ ۖ إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْبَرُّ الرَّحِيمُ ٢٨
"Truly, we did call unto Him from of old: truly it is He, the Beneficent, the Merciful!"
52:29
فَذَكِّرْ فَمَا أَنْتَ بِنِعْمَتِ رَبِّكَ بِكَاهِنٍ وَلَا مَجْنُونٍ ٢٩
Therefore proclaim thou the praises (of thy Lord): for by the Grace of thy Lord, thou art no (vulgar) soothsayer, nor art thou one possessed.
52:30
أَمْ يَقُولُونَ شَاعِرٌ نَتَرَبَّصُ بِهِ رَيْبَ الْمَنُونِ ٣٠
Or do they say:- "A Poet! we await for him some calamity (hatched) by Time!"