(Say (O Muhammad): Have ye thought) O people of Mecca: (Whether Allah causeth me (Muhammad) and those with me) among the believers (to perish) by chastising us (or hath mercy on us) by sparing us from the chastisement; he said: it is Allah Who has forgiven us such that He did not torment us; and it is Him Who has the power to show mercy towards us or destroy us, (still, who will protect the disbelievers from a painful doom?
