38 Preface وَآثَرَ الحَياةَ الدُّنياYusuf AliAnd had preferred1 the life of this world,The abiding Punishment will be for those who had willfully and persistently rebelled against God, “transgressing all bounds”, and had given themselves up to the vanities and lusts of this lower life. This Punishment will not touch those who had repented and been forgiven, nor those guilty, through human frailty, of minor sins, whose deeds will be weighed in the balance against their good deeds: 101:6-9.