they did not perceive.

007.096
Y: If the people of the towns had but believed and feared Allah, We
should indeed have opened out to them (All kinds of) blessings from
heaven and earth; but they rejected (the truth), and We brought them to
book for their misdeeds.

P: And if the people of the townships had believed and kept from evil,
surely We should have opened for them blessings from the sky and from
the earth. But (unto every messenger) they gave the lie, and so We
seized them on account of what they used to earn.

S: And if the people of the towns had believed and guarded (against
evil) We would certainly have opened up for them blessings from the
heaven and the earth, but they rejected, so We overtook them for what
they had earned.

007.097
Y: Did the people of the towns feel secure against the coming of Our
wrath by night while they were asleep?

P: Are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our
wrath upon them as a night-raid while they sleep?

S: What! do the people of the towns then feel secure from Our punishment
coming to them by night while they sleep?

007.098
Y: Or else did they feel secure against its coming in broad daylight
while they played about (care-free)?

P: Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our
wrath upon them in the daytime while they play?

S: What! do the people of the towns feel secure from Our punishment
coming to them in the morning while they play?

007.099
Y: Did they then feel secure against the plan of Allah?- but no one can
feel secure from the Plan of Allah, except those (doomed) to ruin!

P: Are they then secure from Allah's scheme? None deemeth himself secure
from Allah's scheme save folk that perish.

S: What! do they then feel secure from Allah's plan? But none feels
secure from Allah's plan except the people who shall perish.

007.100
Y: To those who inherit the earth in succession to its (previous)
possessors, is it not a guiding, (lesson) that, if We so willed, We
could punish them (too) for their sins, and seal up their hearts so
that they could not hear?

P: Is it not an indication to those who inherit the land after its
people (who thus reaped the consequence of evil-doing) that, if We
will, We can smite them for their sins and print upon their hearts so
that they hear not?

S: Is it not clear to those who inherit the earth after its (former)
residents that if We please We would afflict them on acco