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Sura 39
Aya 47
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وَلَو أَنَّ لِلَّذينَ ظَلَموا ما فِي الأَرضِ جَميعًا وَمِثلَهُ مَعَهُ لَافتَدَوا بِهِ مِن سوءِ العَذابِ يَومَ القِيامَةِ ۚ وَبَدا لَهُم مِنَ اللَّهِ ما لَم يَكونوا يَحتَسِبونَ

Muhammad Asad

But if those who are bent on evildoing possessed all that is on earth, and twice as much,1 they would surely offer it as ransom from the awful suffering [that will befall them] on the Day of Resurrection:2 for, something with which they had not reckoned before will [by then] have been made obvious to them by God;3
  • Lit., "and the like of it with it".
  • Cf. 3:91 and the corresponding note 71.
  • Lit., "will have become obvious to them (bada lahum) from God" - i.e., the fact that man's attitudes and actions in this world determine his state and further development in the hereafter: in other words, that happiness or suffering in the life to come (allegorically described as "paradise" or "hell", and "reward" or "chastisement") are but natural consequences of the use which man makes in this life of his capabilities, endowments and opportunities.