32.Surah As-Sajdah

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ فَسَقُوا فَمَأْوَاهُمُ النَّارُ...

32: 20. As to those who are rebellious and wicked, their abode will be the Fire:

...كُلَّمَا أَرَادُوا أَن يَخْرُجُوا مِنْهَا أُعِيدُوا فِيهَا...

every time they wish to get away therefrom, they will be forced thereinto,

C3653. Cf. 22:22.

Just as the gardens is the type of Bliss, so is the Fire the type of Penalty and suffering. There will be no getting away from it.

What will be the thoughts of those who had earned it?

"We used to reject the idea of the Consequences as a mere chimera: and now we find it to be true!"

What will be their feelings then?

How will they like it!

...وَقِيلَ لَهُمْ ذُوقُوا عَذَابَ النَّارِ الَّذِي كُنتُم بِهِ تُكَذِّبُونَ ﴿٢٠﴾

and it will be said to them:

"Taste ye the Penalty of the Fire, the which ye were wont to reject as false."

Asad’s Version:

(32:20) but as for those who are lost in iniquity - their goal is the fire: as oft as they will try to come out of it, they will be thrown back into it; and they will be told, "Taste [now] this suffering through fire which you were wont to call a lie!"