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Sura 3
Aya 162
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أَفَمَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضوانَ اللَّهِ كَمَن باءَ بِسَخَطٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَمَأواهُ جَهَنَّمُ ۚ وَبِئسَ المَصيرُ

Muhammad Asad

Is then he1 who strives after God's goodly acceptance like unto him who has earned the burden of God's condemnation2 and whose goal is hell? - and how vile a journey's end!
  • An allusion, in this case, to the Prophet Muhammad as well as to prophets in general.
  • I.e., by falsely attributing his own views to God or distorting His messages by arbitrary interpolations and deliberate changes in the wording of a revelation - an accusation often levelled in the Qur'an (e.g., 2: 79 and 3:78) against the followers of earlier revelations.