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Surah Az-Zukhruf — 43:74

إِنَّ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ فِى عَذَابِ جَهَنَّمَ خَـٰلِدُونَ

Innal mujrimeena fee 'azaabi jahannama khaalidoon

Indeed, the guilty will remain in the punishment of jahannam, there to stay.

Reflection

The verse turns a corner. Everything from verse sixty-eight onward has described the garden in the vocabulary of wealth, gold trays and goblets and whatever the eye enjoys, which in a surah named for ornament is pointed, since those are the things the deniers already had. Mujrimūn comes from a root meaning to cut off, and two verses further on the passage insists the severing was their own doing.

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