And indeed if We had destroyed them with a punishment before it, they would have said: "Our Lord, why didn’t You send us a Messenger so that we could have followed Your verses before we were humiliated and disgraced?"
The character of disbelievers during the time of Messenger is portrayed in this verse. But today the Arabic Quran reading Fujjar who are reading these verses have become worse than any other people by rejecting Adhikr. They are deaf, dumb, and blind not towards the Arabic Quran, but towards Adhikr as explained in verse 2: 18. They are denoted as the worst among 1000 communities of Lord’s creatures as explained in verse 8: 22. They will have disgrace and humiliation in this world as well as painful punishment in the hereafter as explained in verses 2: 85 and 5: 33. See explanation 6: 155-157; 9: 5 and 123.