182وَالَّذينَ كَذَّبوا بِآياتِنا سَنَستَدرِجُهُم مِن حَيثُ لا يَعلَمونَMuhammad AsadBut as for those who are bent on giving the lie to Our messages - We shall bring them low, step by step, without their perceiving how it came about:1Lit., "without their knowing whence [it comes]". For an explanation of the term kayd ("subtle scheme") occurring in the next verse, see note 25 on 68:45, where this term appears for the first time in Qur'anic revelation.