Al Anbiyā’

وَلَئِن مَسَّتْهُمْ نَفْحَةٌ مِنْ عَذَابِ رَبّـِكَ لَيَقُولُنَّ يَاوَيْلَنَآ إِنَّا كُنَّا ظَالِمِينَ

46. “And if a blast of the punishment of your Lord touches them, they will certainly say: ‘Woe unto us! Verily we were unjust’.”

Those persons who do not awake by the warnings of divine prophets, will surely be awaken by the lashes of the divine punishment. By confronting the simplest danger, all claiming vanities will be destroyed and the sleeping consciences will awaken. This holy verse implies that these unaware proud people, who never obeyed the Lord when they were in peace and affluence, will be so worried when a little punishment of Allah visit them that they cry that they were all oppressors and unjust.

The verse says:

But, what is the use of it? This constrained awareness does not benefit them.