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Sura 13
Aya 42
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وَقَد مَكَرَ الَّذينَ مِن قَبلِهِم فَلِلَّهِ المَكرُ جَميعًا ۖ يَعلَمُ ما تَكسِبُ كُلُّ نَفسٍ ۗ وَسَيَعلَمُ الكُفّارُ لِمَن عُقبَى الدّارِ

Muhammad Asad

Now those who lived before these [sinners] did, too, devise many a blasphemy1 - but the most subtle devising is that of God, who knows what each human being deserves:2 and the deniers of the truth will [in time] come to know to whom the future belongs.3
  • Lit., "did scheme" - an expression which in this context apparently refers to blasphemous ideas and attitudes.
  • Lit., "earns" - i.e., of good and evil.
  • For an explanation of this rendering of 'uqba 'd-dar (which is here synonymous with 'aqibat ad-dar), see surah 6, note 118.