16. Sura al-Nahl, Mecca 70

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

إِلَهُكُمْ إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ...    

16: 22.  Your Allah is One Allah:

... فَالَّذِينَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالآخِرَةِ قُلُوبُهُم مُّنكِرَةٌ وَهُم مُّسْتَكْبِرُونَ ﴿٢٢﴾ 

as to those who believe not in the Hereafter, their hearts refuse to know and they are arrogant.

Other Versions:

16: 22

Asad Your God is the One God: but because of their false pride, the hearts of those who do not believe in the life to come refuse to admit this.

Pickthall Your God is One God. But as for those who believe not in the Hereafter their hearts refuse to know, for they are proud.

Ali’s note:

C2045. Everything points to Allah, the One True Eternal God. If so, there is a Hereafter, for He has declared it.

In so far as people do not believe this, the fault is in their Will; they do not wish to believe, and the motive behind is arrogance, the sin which brought about the fall of Iblis: 2:34. (R).

[Asad note 15: I.e., they are too arrogant to accept the idea of man’s utter dependence on, and responsibility to, a Supreme Being.]

[Ruby’s note: If one refuse to believe Hereafter, and thinks that this life is final, then he/she has not enough reason to acknowledge existence of God and to submit to his Laws. They may think that they can get away with anything and they would not be accountable. ]