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How would it be, [what] would they do, when an affliction, a punishment, befalls them for what their own hands have sent before them, of unbelief and acts of disobedience, that is to say, would they then be able to turn away and escape it? No! They then come to you (thumma jā'ūka, a supplement to yasuddūn, 'they turn away' [of the previous verse]), swearing by Allahu ta’ālā that, in turning to other than you for arbitration, 'We sought only virtue, settlement, and harmony', reconciliation between the disputing parties by [any] approximate judgement without regard for the painful truth.