Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Anbiyaa, Ayah 39
لَوْ يَعْلَمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ حِينَ لَا يَكُفُّونَ عَن وُجُوهِهِمُ ٱلنَّارَ وَلَا عَن ظُهُورِهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ
If those who disbelieved but knew the time when they will not avert the Fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be aided...
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God exalted be He says If those who disbelieved only knew of the time when they shall not be able to ward off repel the Fire from their faces nor from their backs nor shall they be helped nor shall they be protected from it at the Resurrection the response to the conditional particle law ‘if only’ is something along the lines of ‘they would not have said that’.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(If those who disbelieved) if those who disbelieved in Muhammad (pbuh) and in the Qur'an knew the chastisement awaiting them, they would not ask for it to be hastened, (but knew the time when they will not be able to drive off) when the chastisement comes, they will not be able to push away (the Fire from their faces and from their backs, and they will not be helped) to drive away the chastisement!