If only when Our might Our punishment came upon them they had been humble in other words they were not so even though the necessitating factor was there. But their hearts were hard and would not yield to faith and Satan adorned for them what they were doing in the way of disobedient acts and so they persisted in them.
- 6:4343
فَلَوْلَا إِذْ جَاءَهُمْ بَأْسُنَا تَضَرَّعُوا وَلَٰكِنْ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
Then why did they not submit when Our punishment came upon them? But their hearts were hardened, and Satan made things they were doing look attractive to them.
- common.revelation-Meccan
- common.hizb : 53