Say: "Wait! I am with you among those who wait!"
`wait and I too will wait with you, and you will come to know to whom the good end and triumph shall be granted in this life and the Hereafter.'
Muhammad bin Ishaq reported that Abdullah bin Abi Najih said that Mujahid said that Ibn Abbas said,
"When the Quraysh gathered in the Dar An-Nadwah (their meeting place) to discuss the matter of the Prophet, one of them said,
`Jail him in chains. Then we will wait and in time, a calamity will strike him; he will die just as the poets before him died, such as Zuhayr and An-Nabighah, for he is a poet just like them.'
Allah the Exalted said in response to their statement,
أَمْ يَقُولُونَ شَاعِرٌ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِ رَيْبَ الْمَنُونِ
(Or do they say: "A poet! We await for him some calamity by time!)""
Allah the Exalted said,