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Sura 7
Aya 39
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وَقالَت أولاهُم لِأُخراهُم فَما كانَ لَكُم عَلَينا مِن فَضلٍ فَذوقُوا العَذابَ بِما كُنتُم تَكسِبونَ

Yusuf Ali

Then the first will say to the last: “See then! No advantage have ye over us; so taste ye of the penalty for all that ye did !”1
  • Wrongdoers have really no sense of honour towards each other. “Honour among thieves” is an exceptional, not an ordinary, experience. In real life, guilt and crime are apt to indulge in mean spite and bitter recriminations against accomplices.