And when there came to them a Messenger from Allah verifying that which they have, a party of those who were given the Book threw the Book of Allah behind their backs as if they knew nothing.

Therefore bear up patiently as did the messengers endowed with constancy bear up with patience and do not seek to hasten for them (their doom). On the day that they shall see what they are promised they shall be as if they had not tarried save an hour of the day. A sufficient exposition! Shall then any be destroyed save the transgressing people?

And round them shall go boys of theirs as if they were hidden pearls.

Their eyes cast down, going forth from their graves as if they were scattered locusts,

Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees torn up.

And when you see them, their persons will please you, and If they speak, you will listen to their speech; (they are) as if they were big pieces of wood clad with garments; they think every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, therefore beware of them; may Allah destroy them, whence are they turned back?

Which He made to prevail against them for seven nights and eight days unremittingly, so that you might have seen the people therein prostrate as if they were the trunks of hollow palms.

The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal,

As if they were asses taking fright

On the day that they see it, it will be as though they had not tarried but the latter part of a day or the early part of it.