The Holy Quran 41:40 — Surah Fussilat

Arabic text

إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُلْحِدُونَ فِىٓ ءَايَـٰتِنَا لَا يَخْفَوْنَ عَلَيْنَآ ۗ أَفَمَن يُلْقَىٰ فِى ٱلنَّارِ خَيْرٌ أَم مَّن يَأْتِىٓ ءَامِنًا يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ ۚ ٱعْمَلُوا۟ مَا شِئْتُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ

Translation

Verily those who deviate from (distort, misinterpret and misrepresent) Our Aayaat are not hidden from Us. (We are Aware of what they do and will punish them for it.) Is the one whom We cast into the Fire better than the one who will arrive safely on the Day of Qiyaamah? Do as you please. Allaah is definitely Watching what you do. (Remember that you will be punished for your sins in the Aakhirah)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

No scheme of the disbelievers is hidden: that is, those who, even after hearing the revealed verses from the tongues of those who call to Allah and seeing Allah's signs of creation on the page of time, do not desist from their crookedness, and make straightforward things crooked by raising absurd doubts, or needlessly twist and distort them and take their…

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