15 Preface كَلّا لَئِن لَم يَنتَهِ لَنَسفَعًا بِالنّاصِيَةِYusuf AliLet him beware! If he desist not, We will drag him by the forelock,—1Cf. first note to verse 11:56. The forelock is on the forehead, and is thus symbolical of the summit and crown of the man’s power or dignity. To be dragged by it is to suffer the lowest dregs of humiliation. Nasfa’an is a syncopated form of the emphatic first person plural.