16 Preface اتَّخَذوا أَيمانَهُم جُنَّةً فَصَدّوا عَن سَبيلِ اللَّهِ فَلَهُم عَذابٌ مُهينٌYusuf AliThey have made their oaths a screen (for their misdeeds): thus they obstruct (men)1 from the Path of God. therefore shall they have a humiliating Penalty.A false man, by swearing that he is true, makes his falsehood all the more heinous. He stands in the way of other people accepting Truth. He gives a handle to the cynics and the sceptics.