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Sura 50
Aya 24
24
أَلقِيا في جَهَنَّمَ كُلَّ كَفّارٍ عَنيدٍ

Muhammad Asad

[Whereupon God will command:] "Cast, cast1 into hell every [such] stubborn enemy of the truth,
  • In this instance, as well as in verse 26, the imperative "cast" has the dual form (alqiya). As many classical philologists (and almost all of the commentators) point out, - this is linguistically permissible for the sake of special stress, and is equivalent to an emphatic repetition of the imperative in question. Alternatively, the dual form may be taken as indicative of an actual duality thus addressed: namely, the two manifestations within man's psyche alluded to in verse 17 and described in verse 21 as sa'iq and shahid (see note 14 above), both of which, in thefr interaction, are responsible for his spiritual downfall and, hence, for his suffering in the life to come.