177 Preface فَإِذا نَزَلَ بِساحَتِهِم فَساءَ صَباحُ المُنذَرينَYusuf AliBut when it descends into the open space1 before them, evil will be the morning for those who were warned (and heeded not)! See last note. The parable is that of an enemy camp in a plain, which is surprised and destroyed by a night attack from the hills. Evil is the plight of any survivors in the morning. Their regrets will be all the more poignant if they had had some sort of a warning before hand and had paid no heed to it!