Let their only tidings4 be those of painful punishment;
Save to those who believe and do the things that be right.
An unfailing recompense shall be theirs.
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1 Lit. and obeyed its Lord, and shall be worthy, or capable, i.e., of obedience.
2 That is, into his left hand. The Muhammadans believe that the right hand of the damned will be chained to the neck; the left chained behind the back.
3 From Life to Death, from the Grave to Resurrection, thence to Paradise.
4 The expression is ironical. See Freyt. on the word. Lit. tell them glad tidings.
SURA C.-THE CHARGERS [XXXIV.]
Mecca.-11 Verses