وَقِيلَ ٱلْيَوْمَ نَنسَىٰكُمْ كَمَا نَسِيتُمْ لِقَآءَ يَوْمِكُمْ هَـٰذَا وَمَأْوَىٰكُمُ ٱلنَّارُ وَمَا لَكُم مِّن نَّـٰصِرِينَ
Wa qeelal yawma nansaakum kamaa naseetum liqaaa'a yawmikum haazaa wa maawaakumun Naaru wa maa lakum min naasireen
اور کہا جائے گا کہ جس طرح تم نے اس دن کے آنے کو بھلا رکھا تھا۔ اسی طرح آج ہم تمہیں بھلا دیں گے اور تمہارا ٹھکانا دوزخ ہے اور کوئی تمہارا مددگار نہیں
And it will be said, "Today we forget you as you forgot the meeting of this day of yours. Your shelter is the fire, and you have no helpers.
Arabic rhetoric has a name for the figure at work here, mushākala, answering a word with the same word, and commentators read the divine forgetting as being left where you are rather than as any lapse in knowledge. The sentence is built as an exact echo, the verb used of the meeting coming back on the ones who used it. It is spoken in the passive, wa qīla, with no speaker named.