47 Preface ۞ وَإِذا صُرِفَت أَبصارُهُم تِلقاءَ أَصحابِ النّارِ قالوا رَبَّنا لا تَجعَلنا مَعَ القَومِ الظّالِمينَYusuf AliWhen their eyes1 shall be turned towards the Companions of the Fire, they will say: “Our Lord! send us not to the company of the wrong-doers.”Their eyes: according to interpretation (2) of the last note, “their” would refer to the people whose fete has not yet been decided, and the speech would be theirs; according to interpretations (1) and (3) in that note, “their” would refer to the Companions of the Garden, who would realise the terrible nature of hell, and express their horror of it. I prefer the latter. Then the mention of the “men on the Heights” and their speech in verse 48 conies in naturally as a different kind of speech from a different kind of men.