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Surah 40. Ghafir, Ayah 84

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فَلَمَّا رَأَوْا۟ بَأْسَنَا قَالُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا بِٱللَّهِ وَحْدَهُۥ وَكَفَرْنَا بِمَا كُنَّا بِهِۦ مُشْرِكِينَ
Falamm a raaw basan a q a loo a mann a bi A ll a hi wa h dahu wakafarn a bim a kunn a bihi mushrikeen a
And then, when they [clearly] beheld Our punishment,66 they said: "We have come to believe in the One God, and we have renounced all belief in that to which we were wont to ascribe a share in His divinity!"67
  - Mohammad Asad

I.e., the God-willed, catastrophic breakdown of their society and civilization in consequence of their persistent rejection of all spiritual values.

This evidently includes their past belief in man's supposedly "unlimited possibilities" and the illusory conviction that one day he would achieve "mastery over nature".

When they saw Our scourge, they cried out: "We believe in Allah, the One and Only, and we reject all those gods whom we used to associate with Him."
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
When they saw Our punishment, they cried, ''Now' we believe in Allah alone and reject what we had been associating with Him!'
  - Mustafa Khattab
Then, when they saw Our doom, they said: We believe in Allah only and reject (all) that we used to associate (with Him).
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
But when they saw Our punishment they said: "We believe in Allah the One Allah and we reject the partners we used to join with Him."
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
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