Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: As-Sajda, Ayah 21
وَلَنُذِيقَنَّهُم مِّنَ ٱلْعَذَابِ ٱلْأَدْنَىٰ دُونَ ٱلْعَذَابِ ٱلْأَكْبَرِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ
And we will surely let them taste the nearer punishment short of the greater punishment that perhaps they will repent.
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(And verily We make them taste) We will inflict on them, i.e. on the people of Mecca (the lower punishment) the punishment of the life of this world: dryness of the land, drought, hunger, assassination, etc; it is also said that this refers to the torment of the grave (before the greater) before the torment of the Fire; this is a warning to them, (that haply they may return) from their disbelief and accept faith.
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
And We shall surely make them taste the nearer chastisement that is the chastisement of this world — in their being killed or taken captive or through years of drought and disease — before the greater chastisement the chastisement of the Hereafter that perhaps they namely those remaining of them may return to belief.