57 Preface فَيَومَئِذٍ لا يَنفَعُ الَّذينَ ظَلَموا مَعذِرَتُهُم وَلا هُم يُستَعتَبونَYusuf AliSo on that Day no excuse of theirs will avail the Transgressors,1 nor will they be invited (then) to seek grace (by repentance). It will be no use for those who deliberately rejected the clearest warnings in God’s Message to say: “Oh we did not realise this!” The excuse will be false, and it would be unreasonable to suppose that they would then be asked to seek Grace by repentance. It will then be too late (Cf. 16:84).