Surah 16. An-Nahl, Ayah 34
| فَأَصَابَهُمْ سَيِّئَاتُ مَا عَمِلُوا وَحَاقَ بِهِمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | fa- as.aaba -hum sayyi'aat maa camilo wa- h.aaqa bi- -him maa kaano bi- -hi yastahzi'on |
| Pickthall | : | So that the evil of what they did smote them, and that which they used to mock surrounded them. |
| Asad | : | for all the evil that they had done fell [back] upon them, and they were overwhelmed by the very thing which they had been wont to deride.30 |
| Malik | : | At the end, the evil results of their deeds overtook them, and the very scourge at which they mocked, hemmed them in. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | But the evil results of their deeds overtook them and that very (Wrath) at which they had scoffed hemmed them in. |
Note - 30See 6:10 and the corresponding note. Similar phrases
occur in many places in the Qur'an, always with reference
to a derision of divine messages and, particularly, of
predictions relating to God's chastisement of reprobate
sinners. As so often, the Qur'an points out here that
this "chastisement" or "suffering" ('adhab) is but a
natural, unavoidable consequence of deliberate
wrongdoing: hence, he who becomes guilty of it is, in
reality, "doing wrong to himself" or "sinning against
himself" inasmuch as he destroys his own spiritual
integrity and must subsequently suffer for it.
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See 6:10 and the corresponding note. Similar phrases occur in many places in the Qur'an, always with reference to a derision of divine messages and, particularly, of predictions relating to God's chastisement of reprobate sinners. As so often, the Qur'an points out here that this "chastisement" or "suffering" ('adhab) is but a natural, unavoidable consequence of deliberate wrongdoing: hence, he who becomes guilty of it is, in reality, "doing wrong to himself" or "sinning against himself" inasmuch as he destroys his own spiritual integrity and must subsequently suffer for it. |
