Surat An-Nahl (111-112)

{يَوْمَ تَأْتِي كُلُّ نَفْسٍ تُجَادِلُ عَن نَّفْسِهَا وَتُوَفَّى كُلُّ نَفْسٍ مَّا عَمِلَتْ وَهُمْ لاَ يُظْلَمُونَ} (النحل: 111 )

111- On the Day of Resurrection, no one is allowed to defend others, for each soul shall defend itself and seek its salvation without paying attention to a father or a son. Each soul shall be given the retribution of what it earned in the world whether good or bad as a just retribution without decreasing anything of its due rights.

{وَضَرَبَ اللّهُ مَثَلاً قَرْيَةً كَانَتْ آمِنَةً مُّطْمَئِنَّةً يَأْتِيهَا رِزْقُهَا رَغَداً مِّن كُلِّ مَكَانٍ فَكَفَرَتْ بِأَنْعُمِ اللّهِ فَأَذَاقَهَا اللّهُ لِبَاسَ الْجُوعِ وَالْخَوْفِ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَصْنَعُونَ} (النحل: 112 )

112- Allah set an example with a village (i.e., Makkah) which was secure and stable, and no one was able to attack it or harm anyone resorted to it even if he was a killer although people around them were in war and trial. And the food of its people comes to it from different kinds of food and fruits easily although they are located in a village where plants do not grow plants and surrounded by mountains. They denied the favors of Allah instead of showing gratitude, worshipped idols until Allah inflicted them with famine for seven years to the extent that they ate bones and dead animals.

The Prophet's envoys and detachments used to pass by them and go here and there, and they feared to be attacked. So, their fear was replaced with security as a retribution of their oppression, polytheism, and their ingratitude to the favors of their Lord and to security, perhaps they remember His Favors upon them, leave aside polytheism, and embrace Islam.