(… بَغْتَةً أَوْ جَهْرَةً… ) (…unexpectedly or manifestly …): The punishment may surprise a people without any prior signs or it could come in a clear form, and without any prior indications or signs sent to the human being.

(  هَلْ يُهْلَكُ إِلَّا الْقَوْمُ الظَّالِمُونَ… ) (…will any be destroyed but the wrongdoing people?”): Why is this so? It is because, they had oppressed themselves and also others, so Allah (swt) destroyed them. For the human being is in fact oppressing himself when he presents it with its immediate desires instead of the everlasting blessings.