(Otherwise, if disaster should afflict them) if the chastisement of the Day of Judgement afflicted your people, the Quraysh, (because of that which their own hands have sent before (them)) because of what they had earned in their state of disbelief, (they might say) upon the coming of the torment of the Day of Judgement on them: (Our Lord!) O our Lord! (Why sentest Thou no messenger unto us) with a Scripture before You chastised us, (that we might have followed Your revelations) Your Scripture and Messenger (and been of the believers) in the Scripture and Messenger? If it were otherwise, We would have destroyed them before you, but We have sent them the Qur'an so that they do not have any excuse against Us.