Tafseer of Sheba · Saba · 34:29
And they say, "When is this promise, if you should be truthful?"
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The discourse on the explanation of His statement, the Exalted: وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَى هَذَا الْوَعْدُ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ ("And they say: when will this promise come, if you are truthful?") (34:29).
He, exalted is His mention, says: and these polytheists (mushrikīn) who ascribe associates to Allah say, when they hear the threat (waʿīd) of Allah against the unbelievers, and what He will do to them upon their return (in the Hereafter), of that which Allah has sent down in His Book: مَتَى هَذَا الْوَعْدُ ("when will this promise come") to pass, and at what time will it occur, إِنْ كُنْتُمْ ("if you") in that which you promise us thereof صَادِقِينَ ("are truthful") that it will come to pass?
