And your Lord-O Messenger-was not to destroy the villages which are around -Mecca-- in your time until He resurrects in its mother-and it is -Mecca-- a messenger reciting upon them Our verses, and We were not ones destroying the villages except while its people were wrongdoers to themselves by their disbelief in Allah and His disobedience, for they by that are ones deserving for the retribution and the punishment.