هَلْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَّا تَأْوِيلَهُۥ ۚ يَوْمَ يَأْتِى تَأْوِيلُهُۥ يَقُولُ ٱلَّذِينَ نَسُوهُ مِن قَبْلُ قَدْ جَآءَتْ رُسُلُ رَبِّنَا بِٱلْحَقِّ فَهَل لَّنَا مِن شُفَعَآءَ فَيَشْفَعُوا۟ لَنَآ أَوْ نُرَدُّ فَنَعْمَلَ غَيْرَ ٱلَّذِى كُنَّا نَعْمَلُ ۚ قَدْ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ
hal yanzuroona illaa taa weelah; yawma yaatee taaweeluhoo yaqoolul lazeena nasoohu min qablu qad jaaa'at Rusulu Rabbinaa bilhaqq; fahal lanaa min shufa'aaa'a fa yashfa'oo lanaaa aw nuraddu fana'mala ghairal lazee kunnaa na'mal; qad khasirooo anfusahum wa dalla 'anhum maa kaanoo yaftaroon
Kitap'ın haber verdiği sonuçtan başka bir şey mi bekliyorlar? Sonuç gelip çattığı gün, önceleri onu unutmuş olanlar, "Rabbimizin peygamberleri şüphesiz bize gerçeği getirmişti, şimdi bize şefaat etsin, yahut geriye çevrilsek de işlediklerimizin başka türlüsünü işlesek" derler. Doğrusu kendilerini mahvetmişlerdir, uydurdukları şeyler onları koyup kaçmışlardır.
Are they waiting for anything but its fulfillment? On the day its fulfillment comes, those who had forgotten it before will say, "The messengers of our Lord did come with the truth. Have we any intercessors to intercede for us? Or can we be sent back, so we may act differently from how we used to act?" They have ruined their own souls, and what they used to invent has abandoned them.
Ta'wil is the word surah Yusuf uses eight times for a dream coming true, the event that finally shows what the dream had meant. Applied to a book, it names the day its warnings arrive as happenings, which makes the waiting described here a wait for an outcome. Two things are asked for, intercessors and a return, and the verse answers neither, moving straight to what has already been lost.