Al-Muminoon (The Believers)

Verse 64 - 65

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    64. “Until, when We seize the luxurious ones of them with punishment, behold, they groan.”

    65. “ (It will be said to them:) ‘Groan not this day! Surely you will not be helped by Us!”

    The Qur’anic word /yaj’arun/ means the howl of a dog or wolf when the animal is hurt. The likening of the groans of the tranquil negligent ones to the howl of a dog is a sign of their abjectness because of their worldly intoxication.

    No other means except the Divine Punishment can awaken this conceited proud and tranquil group that is drowning in the pleasures of the world. Until such a time they will remain ignorant and negligent wallowing in their wealth, power and comforts when they are punished, and at that time they will howl like beasts, and they groan because of the heaviness of the Divine chastisement.

    The verse says:

    “Until, when We seize the luxurious ones of them with punishment, behold, they groan.”

    The next verse, addressing them, implies: Groan not in supplication this day! Verily you will not be helped by Us!

    It says;

    “ (It will be said to them:) 'Groan not this day! Surely you will not be helped by Us!”

    Of course the wrongdoers are not limited to the ‘mutrafin’:

    (‘...those who receive the good things of this world ...’),

    who are mentioned here, it is either because they are the chiefs and leaders of ignorance and deviation, or it is because their punishment will be more painful and severe.

    The punishment mentioned here may be the punishment in this world, in the Hereafter or in both, and when Allah punishes them in this world or in the Hereafter they will cry loudly and supplicate. But at that time the dice has already been cast and the chastisement has been decided, so they will not be able to return.

    Imam Sadiq (as) says:

    “Allah, The Blessed and The Exalted, has sworn that three groups have no place in Paradise: The group that rejects the commandments of Allah, the Almighty and Glorious; the group that does not obey the command of the leading Imam, and the group that does not give a believer his due.”1