32۞ فَمَن أَظلَمُ مِمَّن كَذَبَ عَلَى اللَّهِ وَكَذَّبَ بِالصِّدقِ إِذ جاءَهُ ۚ أَلَيسَ في جَهَنَّمَ مَثوًى لِلكافِرينَMuhammad AsadAnd who could be more wicked than he who invents lies about God,1 and gives the lie to the truth as soon as it has been placed before him? Is not hell the [proper] abode for all who deny the truth?2In this instance, the "inventing of lies about God" alludes to the attribution of a share in His divinity to anyone or anything beside Him, whether it be a belief in a plurality of deities, or in an imaginary "incarnation" of God in human form, or in saints allegedly endowed with semi-divine powers.Lit., "Is not in hell an abode..., etc.: a rhetorical question indicating, firstly, that other-worldly suffering is the unavoidable destiny - symbolically, "an abode" - of all such sinners; and, secondly, that in the concept and picture of "hell" we are given an allegory of that self-caused suffering.