32 Preface ثُمَّ في سِلسِلَةٍ ذَرعُها سَبعونَ ذِراعًا فَاسلُكوهُYusuf Ali“Further, make him march in a chain, whereof1 the length is seventy cubits!The sinful men who will be given their record on the Day of Judgment in their left hands will be in utter despair. Their power and authority which they misused to perpetrate injustice and oppression will be gone. The wealth that had made them turn a deaf ear to the call of truth will be no more. They will cry out in agony, “O would that we were never raised again! O would that death had obliterated us once for all”. But these cries will be of no avail. They will be seized, bound in chains and thrown into the Blazing Fire for their crimes against God and man. [Eds.].