(And they will bid thee) O Muhammad (hasten on the Doom) al-Nadr Ibn al-Harth wanted the chastisement to happen before its due time, (and Allah faileth not His promise) by bringing down His chastisement, (but lo! a Day) like the one in which their chastisement happens (with Allah is as a the sand years of what ye reckon) of the days of this worldly life.