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وَما يُكَذِّبُ بِهِ إِلّا كُلُّ مُعتَدٍ أَثيمٍ

Muhammad Asad

for, none gives the lie to it but such as are wont to transgress against all that is [and are] immersed in sin:1
  • Implying that a denial of ultimate responsibility before God and, hence, of His judgment - is invariably conducive to sinning and to transgression against all moral imperatives. (Although this and the next verse are formulated in the singular, I am rendering them in the plural inasmuch as this plurality is idiomatically indicated by the word kull before the descriptive participles mu'tad and athim, as well as by the use of a straight plural in verses 14 ff.)