ثُمَّ بَدَّلۡنَا مَكَانَ ٱلسَّيِّئَةِ ٱلۡحَسَنَةَ حَتَّىٰ عَفَواْ وَّقَالُواْ قَدۡ مَسَّ ءَابَآءَنَا ٱلضَّرَّآءُ وَٱلسَّرَّآءُ فَأَخَذۡنَٰهُم بَغۡتَةٗ وَهُمۡ لَا يَشۡعُرُونَ ٩٥
Thumma baddalnā makānas-sayyiʾatil-ḥasanata ḥattā ʿafaw wa qālū qad massa ābāʾanaḍ-ḍarrāʾu was-sarrāʾu fa akhadhnāhum baghtataw wa hum lā yashʿurūn.
Then We exchanged in place of the bad [condition], good, until they increased [and prospered] and said, "Our fathers [also] were touched with hardship and ease."1 So We seized them suddenly while they did not perceive.2
Translation: Sahih International
Footnotes (2)
- Instead of being grateful to Allāh for His blessings, they merely attributed them to the changing fortunes of time.
- That they had been tried and tested.