وَقَالَ الَّذِینَ کَفَرُوا لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ بِهَذَا الْقُرْآنِ وَلاَ بِالَّذِی بَیْنَ یَدَیْهِ وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذِ الظَّالِمُونَ مَوْقُوفُونَ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ یَرْجِعُ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْض الْقَوْلَ یَقُولُ الَّذِینَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا لِلَّذِینَ اسْتَکْبَرُوا لَوْلاَ أَنْتُمْ لَکُنَّا مُؤْمِنِینَ(( 31 ))

31- AND THE NON-BELIEVERS SAID:- ``WE WILL NEVER BELIEVE IN THIS QURÄN, NOR IN THE (SCRIPTURES THAT WERE SENT) BEFORE IT.''

      AND IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE, WHEN THE OPPRESSORS ARE HELD BEFORE THEIR LORD, BANDYING WORDS WITH ONE ANOTHER:- THE WEAK WILL SAY TO THE HAUGHTY:- ``HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR YOU, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN BELIEVERS.''

قَالَ الَّذِینَ اسْتَکْبَرُوا لِلَّذِینَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا أَنَحْنُ صَدَدْنَاکُمْ عَنِ الْهُدَى بَعْدَ إِذْ جَاءَکُمْ بَلْ کُنتُمْ مُجْرِمِینَ(( 32 ))

32- THE HAUGHTY ONES WILL SAY TO THE WEAK:- ``DID WE BAR YOU FROM GUIDANCE, AFTER IT HAD COME TO YOU? NOT SO! RATHER YOU (YOURSELVES) WERE GUILTY.''

وَقَالَ الَّذِینَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا لِلَّذِینَ اسْتَکْبَرُوا بَلْ مَکْرُ الَّیْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ إِذْ تَأْمُرُونَنَا أَنْ نَکْفُرَ بِاللهِ وَنَجْعَلَ لَهُ أَندَاداً وَأَسَرُّوا النَّدَامَةَ لَمَّا رَأَوُا الْعَذَابَ وَجَعَلْنَا الاَْغْلاَلَ فِی أَعْنَاقِ الَّذِینَ کَفَرُوا هَلْ یُجْزَوْنَ إِلاَّ مَا کَانُوا یَعْمَلُونَ(( 33 ))

33- AND THE WEAK WILL SAY TO THE HAUGHTY:- ``NAY! RATHER (YOUR) PLOTS OF NIGHT AND DAY (STRAYED US).

      WHEN YOU WERE ORDERING US TO DISBELIEVE IN ALLAH, AND TO SET UP COMPEERS TO HIM.''

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      AND WHEN THEY SEE THE PUNISHMENT, THEY CONCEAL THEIR PENITENCE, AND WE PLACE CHAINS AROUND THE NECKS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED.

      ARE THEY REWARDED, EXCEPT FOR WHAT THEY HAD BEEN DOING?