24 Preface وَقِفوهُم ۖ إِنَّهُم مَسئولونَYusuf Ali“But stop them,1 for they must be asked:The scene here is after judgment. As, in an earthly tribunal, the prisoner or his advocate is asked why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, so here those who are proved to have been guilty of wrong are allowed to consider if anything or anyone can help them. Then comes the exposure of the misleaders.