And if We had destroyed them with a punishment before it they would have surely said, ‘Our Lord, wherefore didst Thou not send to us a Messenger that we might have followed Thy commandments before we were humbled and disgraced?’
English - Five Volume Translation
And if We had destroyed them with a punishment before the coming of this Messenger, they would have surely said, [a]‘Our Lord, wherefore didst Thou not send to us a Messenger that we might have followed Thy commandments before we were humbled and disgraced?’
28:48.
English - Short Commentary Translation
And if We had destroyed them with a punishment before the coming of this Messenger, they would have surely said, “Our Lord, wherefore didst Thou not send to us a Messenger that we might have followed Thy commandments before we were humbled and disgraced?”