10 Preface ثُمَّ كانَ عاقِبَةَ الَّذينَ أَساءُوا السّوأىٰ أَن كَذَّبوا بِآياتِ اللَّهِ وَكانوا بِها يَستَهزِئونَYusuf AliIn the long run evil in the extreme1 will be the End of those who do evil; for that they rejected the Signs of God, and held them up to ridicule.The Arabic superlative feminine, referring to the feminine noun 'Aqibah, I have translated by “Evil in the extreme”. In this life good and evil may seem to be mixed up, and it may be that some things or persons that are evil get what seem to be good rewards or blessings, while the opposite happens to the good. But this is only a temporary appearance. In the long run Evil will have its own evil consequences, multiplied cumulatively. And this, because Evil not only rejected God’s Message of Good but laughed at Good and misled others.