32 Preface ۞ فَمَن أَظلَمُ مِمَّن كَذَبَ عَلَى اللَّهِ وَكَذَّبَ بِالصِّدقِ إِذ جاءَهُ ۚ أَلَيسَ في جَهَنَّمَ مَثوًى لِلكافِرينَYusuf AliWho, then, doth more wrong than one who utters a lie concerning God,1 and rejects the Truth when it comes to him; is there not in Hell2 an abode for blasphemers?When the creature deliberately adopts and utters falsehoods against his own Creator, in spite of the Truth being brought, as it were, to his very door by God’s Signs, what offence can we imagine more heinous than this? In Christian theology this is the blasphemy “against the Holy Ghost” spoken of in Matt. xii. 31-32: “whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man”, (Christ), “it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come”.Cf. 3:151; 16:29 [Eds.].