62فَكَيفَ إِذا أَصابَتهُم مُصيبَةٌ بِما قَدَّمَت أَيديهِم ثُمَّ جاءوكَ يَحلِفونَ بِاللَّهِ إِن أَرَدنا إِلّا إِحسانًا وَتَوفيقًاMuhammad AsadBut how [will they fare] when calamity befalls them [on the Day of Judgment] because of what they have wrought in this world1 - whereupon they will come to thee, swearing by God, "Our aim was but to do good, and to bring about harmony"?2Lit., "what their hands have sent ahead": an allusion to their ambivalent attitude and the confusion which it may have created in others.I.e., they will plead that their aim was no more than a harmonization of the Qur'anic ethics with a "humanistic" (that is, man-centred) world-view: a plea which the Qur'an implicitly rejects as being hypocritical and self-deceptive (cf. 2:11-12). As regards the phrase "whereupon they will come to thee", see verse 41 of this surah.