And He shows you His signs. Then, which of the signs of Allah would you (still) deny?

Have they not traveled through the earth and seen how was the fate of those before them? Most of them were more in numbers than these, and superior in vigor and vestiges left on the earth. So then, whatever they used to earn did not work for them at all.

And when their messengers came to them with manifest signs, they exulted because of whatever of knowledge they had, and they were encircled by what they used to ridicule.

And when they saw Our punishment, they said, 'We have (now) come to believe in Allah alone, and We have rejected everything we used to ascribe (to Him) as partners."

But, their profession of faith was not (competent) to benefit them, once they had seen Our punishment – a customary practice of Allah that has been there all along in the matter of His servants - and hence, the disbelievers became the losers.