Ad-Dukhan Verse 13

How can they be reminded when a messenger has already come to them, making things clear,

How will they take heed, when a messenger who explained things clearly has already come to them?

How should they have the Reminder, seeing a clear Messenger already came to them,

How will this [sudden] faith benefit them? When a prophet came to warn them plainly,

How can there be an admonition Unto them, when surely there came Unto them an apostle manifest!

How shall the message be (effectual) for them, seeing that an Messenger explaining things clearly has (already) come to them,-

But how will they take heed? Such are they that a Messenger came to them clearly expounding the Truth,

How can a warning benefit them? The Apostle who explained all things clearly had come to them,

How is it possible for them to accept guidance, whereas a Noble Messenger who speaks clearly has already come to them?

What will the admonition avail them, when a manifest apostle had already come to them,

How is a reminder possible for them (such that their profession of faith could be true), seeing that there has come to them a Messenger making the truth clear (and embodying it in every element of his life and character),

How shall they take heed (now in this condition) for there has already come to them a Great Messenger telling the right from the wrong.

From where/how the remembrance/reminder be for them, and a clear/evident messenger had come to them?

How is it possible for them to accept guidance, whereas a Noble Messenger who speaks clearly has already come to them?

How can they remember (or understand Allah or the message), when a Messenger making clear (the truth) had already come to them,

How can there be for them an admonition (at the time when the torment has reached them), when a Messenger explaining things clearly has already come to them.

Our Lord, remove from us the chastisement -- surely we are believers.

How shall they be reminded, and there came to them an Apostle making clear (the truth),

How can there be remembrance for them, when a messenger making plain (the Truth) had already come unto them,

How could this punishment bring them to their senses when a Messenger evidently had come to them,

But how will they avail themselves of the Reminder, when a clear Messenger had already come to them

How can there be for them an admonition, when a Messenger explaining things clearly has already come to them.

How can they benefit from admonition, seeing that a messenger had already come to them explaining things clearly?

But how can they be reminded? An enlightening messenger has already come to them.

God, exalted be He, says; How can there be a reminder for them, that is to say, faith will not benefit them once the chastisement has been sent down, when already there has come to them a manifest Messenger, whose Message is plain [to understand],

ثُمَّ تَوَلَّوْا عَنْهُ وَقَالُوا مُعَلَّمٌ مَّجْنُونٌ