Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Kahf, Ayah 58
وَرَبُّكَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ذُو ٱلرَّحْمَةِ ۖ لَوْ يُؤَاخِذُهُم بِمَا كَسَبُوا۟ لَعَجَّلَ لَهُمُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ۚ بَل لَّهُم مَّوْعِدٌۭ لَّن يَجِدُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦ مَوْئِلًۭا
And your Lord is the Forgiving, full of mercy. If He were to impose blame upon them for what they earned, He would have hastened for them the punishment. Rather, for them is an appointment from which they will never find an escape.
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And your Lord is the Forgiver Full of Mercy. Were He to take them to task in this world for what they have earned He would have hastened for them the chastisement therein; but they have a tryst which is the Day of Resurrection from which they will not find any escape any refuge.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Thy Lord is the Forgiver, Full of Mercy) in that He defers His chastisement. (If He took them to task (now) for what they earn) for their idolatry, (He would hasten on the doom for them) in this worldly life; (but theirs is an appointed term) for their destruction (from which) from Allah's chastisement (they will find no escape) they will find no refuge.