23 Preface قالَ إِنَّمَا العِلمُ عِندَ اللَّهِ وَأُبَلِّغُكُم ما أُرسِلتُ بِهِ وَلٰكِنّي أَراكُم قَومًا تَجهَلونَYusuf AliHe said: “The Knowledge1 (of when it will come) is only with God. I proclaim to you the mission on which I have been sent: But I see that ye are a people in ignorance!”...The coming of the Punishment for evil was (and is always) certain. At what particular time it would come he could not tell. It is not for the prophet, but for God, to bring on the Penalty. But he saw that it was useless to appeal to them on account of the ignorance in which they were content to dwell.