There is not a region to which We sent a prophet and did not inflict upon its people adversity and hardship so that they may submit. 94 and then We changed their hardship into ease until they grew affluent and said, "Our fathers had also experienced adversity and prosperity," then We seized them suddenly, unawares. 95 Yet if the people of those communities had but attained to faith and been conscious of Us, We would indeed have opened up for them blessings out of heaven and earth: but they gave the lie to the truth - and so We took them to task through what they [themselves] had been doing. 96 Are the people of the region so secure that they lie asleep unaware as Our punishment overtakes them? 97 Or did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them in the morning while they were at play? 98 Did they consider themselves secure from the retribution of God? No one can have such attitude except those who are lost. 99