Surah Yunus, ayah 51

أَثُمَّ إِذَا مَا وَقَعَ ءَامَنتُم بِهِۦٓۚ ءَآلۡـَٰٔنَ وَقَدۡ كُنتُم بِهِۦ تَسۡتَعۡجِلُونَ ٥١

Then is it that when it has [actually] occurred you will believe in it? Now?¹ And you were [once] for it impatient.²

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 i.e., when it is too late to benefit from belief.

2 Challenging those who warned of it to bring it on immediately.

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Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

أَثُمَّIs (it) thenathumma
إِذَاwhenidhā
مَاwhenmā
وَقَعَ(it had) occurredwaqaʿa
ءَامَنتُمyou (will) believeāmantum
بِهِۦٓۚin itbihi
ءَآلۡـَٰٔنَNowāl'āna
وَقَدۡAnd certainlywaqad
كُنتُمyou werekuntum
بِهِۦseeking to hasten itbihi
تَسۡتَعۡجِلُونَseeking to hasten ittastaʿjilūna

Tafsir

Or is it that they will believe after the promised punishment has come down upon them, when believing will not benefit anyone who had not previously brought faith? Is it now that they will believe? And before they were seeking to hasten it because they did not believe in it?!

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran