10 Preface وَلا يَسأَلُ حَميمٌ حَميمًاYusuf AliAnd no friend will ask after a friend,1The world as we know it will have so completely passed away that the landmarks in the heavens and on earth will also have vanished. Not only that, but the human relationships of mind and heart will have been transformed by sin into something ugly and dreadful. The sinners will be so overcome with tenor at the realisation of their personal responsibility that they will desert their most intimate friends, and indeed their very sight of each other will add to their agony.