15كَلّا لَئِن لَم يَنتَهِ لَنَسفَعًا بِالنّاصِيَةِMuhammad AsadNay, if he desist not, We shall most surely drag him down upon his forehead1Or: "by his forelock" - an ancient Arabian expression denoting aa person's utter subjection and humiliation (see 11:56 and the corresponding note 80). However, as Razi points out, the term "forelock" (nasiyah) is here used metonymically for the place on which the forelock grows, i.e., the forehead (cf. also Taj al-'Arus).