Surah Yunus — Ayah 51 (10:51)

English translation (Saheeh International)

Then is it that when it has [actually] occurred you will believe in it? Now?¹ And you were [once] for it impatient.²

1. i.e., when it is too late to benefit from belief.
2. Challenging those who warned of it to bring it on immediately.

Brief commentary

Or is it that they will believe after the promised punishment has come down upon them, when believing will not benefit anyone who had not previously brought faith? Is it now that they will believe? And before they were seeking to hasten it because they did not believe in it?!