وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّا أَن لَّن نُّعْجِزَ اللَّهَ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَن نُّعْجِزَهُ هَرَبًا (12)
(72:12) and that 'we thought that we will neither be able to frustrate Allah on earth, nor frustrate Him by flight'; *12
*12) That is, "We were led by this very idea to the way of success. As we were not fearless of AIlah and we believed that we would not be able to avoid His punishment if we disobeyed Him, so when we heard the Divine Revelation that had been sent to show the right way, we could not have the courage and boldness to persist in the beliefs that our foolish people had spread among us, afar we had known the truth. "