Sura 53, an-Anjm, Mecca 23

The Quranic text and Ali’s version

أَلَّا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَى ﴿٣٨﴾

53: 38.  Namely, that no bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another;

C5113. Here follows a series of eleven aphorisms.

• The first is that a man's spiritual burden-the responsibility for his sin must be borne by himself and not by another: Cf. 6:164.

There can be no vicarious atonement.

(53:38) and of Abraham, who to his trust was true: 30 that no bearer of burdens shall be made to bear another's burden; 31