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Aya 123
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لَيسَ بِأَمانِيِّكُم وَلا أَمانِيِّ أَهلِ الكِتابِ ۗ مَن يَعمَل سوءًا يُجزَ بِهِ وَلا يَجِد لَهُ مِن دونِ اللَّهِ وَلِيًّا وَلا نَصيرًا

Muhammad Asad

It may not accord with your wishful thinking - nor with the wishful thinking of the followers of earlier revelation1 - [that] he who does evil shall be requited for it, and shall find none to protect him from God, and none to bring him succour,
  • An allusion to both the Jewish idea that they are "God's chosen people" and, therefore, assured of His grace in the hereafter, and to the Christian dogma of "vicarious atonement", which promises salvation to all who believe in Jesus as "God's son".