An-Nahl 16:33 هل ينظرون الا ان تاتيهم الملايكة او ياتي امر ربك كذالك فعل الذين من قبلهم وما ظلمهم الله ولاكن كانوا انفسهم يظلمون ٣٣

16:33

هَلۡ

يَنظُرُونَ

إِلَّآ

أَن

تَأۡتِيَهُمُ

ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ

أَوۡ

يَأۡتِيَ

أَمۡرُ

رَبِّكَۚ

كَذَٰلِكَ

فَعَلَ

ٱلَّذِينَ

مِن

قَبۡلِهِمۡۚ

وَمَا

ظَلَمَهُمُ

ٱللَّهُ

وَلَٰكِن

كَانُوٓاْ

أَنفُسَهُمۡ

يَظۡلِمُونَ

٣٣

Are the disbelievers waiting for the angels to come to them, or your Lord’s Judgement? Those who went before them did the same. God did not wrong them; they wronged themselves.

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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

The Disbelievers' Refrain from Faith means that They were simply awaiting Punishment

Threatening the idolators for their persistence in falsehood and their conceited delusions about this world, Allah says: Are these people waiting only for the angels to come and take their souls Qatadah said:

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Chapter 16, Page 270, Juz 14

26. Those who went before them also schemed, but God attacked the very foundations of what they built. The roof fell down on them: punishment came on them from unimagined directions. 27. In the end, on the Day of Resurrection, He will shame them, saying, ‘Where are these “partners” of Mine on whose account you opposed [Me]?’ Those given knowledge will say, ‘Shame and misery on the disbelievers today!’ 28. Those whose lives the angels take while they are wronging themselves will show submission: ‘We were doing no evil.’ ‘Yes you were: God knows fully everything that you have done, 29. so enter the gates of Hell. There you will remain- the home of the arrogant is evil indeed.’ 30. But when the righteous are asked, ‘What has your Lord sent down?’ they will say, ‘All that is good.’ There is a reward in this present world for those who do good, but their home in the Hereafter is far better: the home of the righteous is excellent. 31. They will enter perpetual Gardens graced with flowing streams. There they will have everything they wish. This is the way God rewards the righteous, 32. those whose lives the angels take in a state of goodness. They will say to them, ‘Peace be upon you. Enter the Garden as a reward for what you have done.’ 33. Are the disbelievers waiting for the angels to come to them, or your Lord’s Judgement? Those who went before them did the same. God did not wrong them; they wronged themselves. 34. So the evil they had done hit them and they were surrounded by the very thing they had mocked.

- M.A.S. Abdel Haleem