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And they ask you to hasten the chastisement, even though Allahu ta’ālā would never break His promise, of sending down the chastisement [upon them] - and so He sent it down on the day of Badr. And truly a day with your Rabb, of the days of the Hereafter, on account of the [severity of the] chastisement, is like a thousand years of your counting (read ta'uddūna, or ya'uddūna, 'their counting'), in this world.