Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Hud, Ayah 8
وَلَئِنْ أَخَّرْنَا عَنْهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابَ إِلَىٰٓ أُمَّةٍۢ مَّعْدُودَةٍۢ لَّيَقُولُنَّ مَا يَحْبِسُهُۥٓ ۗ أَلَا يَوْمَ يَأْتِيهِمْ لَيْسَ مَصْرُوفًا عَنْهُمْ وَحَاقَ بِهِم مَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ
And if We hold back from them the punishment for a limited time, they will surely say, "What detains it?" Unquestionably, on the Day it comes to them, it will not be averted from them, and they will be enveloped by what they used to ridicule.
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(And if We delay for them the doom until a reckoned time) until an appointed time: the Day of Badr, (they will surely say) i.e. the people of Mecca: (What withholdeth it) from us tomorrow, out of mockery? (Verily on the day when it) the chastisement (cometh unto them, it cannot be averted from them) the chastisement will not be averted from them, (and that which they derided) the chastisement for their derision of Muhammad (pbuh) and the Qur'an (will surround them) it will descend upon them and it is enjoined on them.
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
And if we postpone the chastisement for them until the arrival of a reckoned time reckoned moments they will surely say in mockery ‘What is detaining it?’ what is preventing it from being sent down? God exalted be He says Verily on the day when it comes to them it cannot be averted warded off from them and that chastisement which they derided shall surround them it shall come down upon them.