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Are they waiting - the deniers are indeed waiting - for nothing less than that the angels should come to them (read ta'tīyahum or ya'tīyahum), to seize their souls, or that your Rabb, that is, His command, meaning His chastisement, should come, or that one of your Rabb's signs should come?, that is, those portents of His that indicate [the arrival of] the Hour? On the day that one of your Rabb's signs comes - and this is the rising of the sun from the west, as reported in the hadīth of the two Sahīhs [of Bukhārī and Muslim] - it shall not benefit a soul to believe if it had not believed theretofore (lam takun āmanat min qabl is an adjectival qualification of nafs, 'a soul') or, a soul which had not [until then], earned in its belief some good, some [act of] obedience, that is to say, its repentance shall be of no benefit to it, as [stated] in the hadīth [corpus]. Say: 'Wait, for one of these things, We too are waiting', for it.