Jonah
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[10:23]
Yet as soon as He has saved them from this [danger], lo! they behave outrageously on earth, offending against all right!
O men! All your outrageous deeds are bound to fall back upon your own selves! [You care only for] the enjoyment of life in this world: [but remember that] in the end unto Us you must return, whereupon We shall make you truly understand all that you were doing [in life].

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* v.23 : See verse 12 (of which the above passage is a parabolic illustration) and the corresponding notes.
* Lit., “your outrageousness (baghy) is only against your own selves.” Cf. the oft-recurring Qur’anic expression, “they have sinned against themselves” (zalamū anfusahum, lit., “they have wronged themselves”), indicating the inevitability with which every evil deed damages its perpetrator spiritually.