27 Preface فَلَمّا رَأَوهُ زُلفَةً سيئَت وُجوهُ الَّذينَ كَفَروا وَقيلَ هٰذَا الَّذي كُنتُم بِهِ تَدَّعونَYusuf AliAt length, when they see it close at hand,1 grieved will be the faces of the Unbelievers, and it will be said (to them): “This is (the promise fulfilled),2 which ye were calling for!”“It”, i.e., the fulfilment of the promise, the Day of Judgment. When it is actually in sight, then the Unbelievers realise that those whom they used to laugh at for their Faith were in the right, and that they themselves, the sceptics, were terribly in the wrong.They had defiantly asked for it. Now that it has come near, and it is too late for repentance, there is “weeping and gnashing of teeth”.