إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُتْرَفِينَ ٤٥
For that they were wont to be indulged, before that, in wealth (and luxury),
56:46
وَكَانُوا يُصِرُّونَ عَلَى الْحِنْثِ الْعَظِيمِ ٤٦
And persisted obstinately in wickedness supreme!
56:47
وَكَانُوا يَقُولُونَ أَئِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا أَإِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ ٤٧
And they used to say, "What! when we die and become dust and bones, shall we then indeed be raised up again?-
56:48
أَوَآبَاؤُنَا الْأَوَّلُونَ ٤٨
"(We) and our fathers of old?"
56:49
قُلْ إِنَّ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَالْآخِرِينَ ٤٩
Say: "Yea, those of old and those of later times,