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Surah Al-Buruj — 85:10

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ فَتَنُوا۟ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَـٰتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَتُوبُوا۟ فَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ جَهَنَّمَ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ ٱلْحَرِيقِ

Innal lazeena fatanul mu'mineena wal mu'minaati summa lam yatooboo falahum 'azaabu Jahannama wa lahum 'azaabul hareeq

جن لوگوں نے مومن مردوں اور مومن عورتوں کو تکلیفیں دیں اور توبہ نہ کی ان کو دوزخ کا (اور) عذاب بھی ہوگا اور جلنے کا عذاب بھی ہوگا

Indeed, those who persecuted the believing men and the believing women and then did not repent — for them is the punishment of jahannam, and for them is the punishment of the burning fire.

Reflection

Repentance stays open even here: the sentence falls on those who persecuted and then did not turn back, which leaves a door for people who had burned others alive, and commentators have long remarked on the generosity of that clause. Fatanu comes from the same root as fitna, the testing of metal by fire, so the verb for what the persecutors did also describes what the believers underwent. Men and women are named separately, as both were at the trench.

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