32. Surah As-Sajdah

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

فَذُوقُوا بِمَا نَسِيتُمْ لِقَاء يَوْمِكُمْ هَذَا ...

32:14 [Ali]. "Taste ye then -- for ye forgot the meeting of this day of yours,

C3646. "Forgot": Cf. n. 1029 to 7:51.

"Forget" is here in the sense of "to ignore deliberately, to reject with scorn".

In the sense of mistake or defect of knowledge it is inapplicable to the All-Perfect Being, for we are expressly told: "My Lord never errs, nor forgets": 20:52.

... إِنَّا نَسِينَاكُمْ...

and We too will forget you --

... وَذُوقُوا عَذَابَ الْخُلْدِ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ ﴿١٤﴾

taste ye the Penalty of Eternity for your (evil) deeds!"

Asad’s Version:

32:14 [Asad]

(14) [And He will say unto the sinners:] "Taste, then, [the recompense] for your having been oblivious of the coming of this your Day [of Judgment] - for, verily, We are [now] oblivious of you: taste, then, [this] abiding suffering for all [the evil] that you were wont to do!"