Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 66
هَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا ٱلسَّاعَةَ أَن تَأْتِيَهُم بَغْتَةًۭ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ
Are they waiting except for the Hour to come upon them suddenly while they perceive not?
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Are they that is the Meccan disbelievers awaiting anything that is to say — they are in fact awaiting nothing — but that Hour should come upon them an ta’tiyahum substitutes for al-sā‘ata ‘the Hour’ suddenly unexpectedly while they are unaware? of the time of its coming beforehand.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
Await they) if they do not repent of their claims (aught save the Hour) save the coming of the Hour, (that it shall come upon them suddenly, when they know not) when they are not aware of the descent of punishment upon them?