The destruction of peoples

ALIF LAM RA. These are the verses of the Book and the perspicuous oration.

The unbelievers would haply like to wish that they had submitted (and become Muslim).

Leave them to feast and revel, beguiled by hope; they will come to know soon.

Not one habitation have We destroyed but at the time determined for it.

No people can hasten or delay the term already fixed for them.

And yet they say: "You, to whom this Exposition has been sent are surely possessed of the Devil.

If you are a man of truth, why can't you bring the angels to us?"

But then We never send the angels down save with the purpose (of enforcing their doom), after which they will not be given more respite.