Jonah
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[10:33]
Thus is thy Sustainer’s word proved true with regard to such as are bent on sinful doings: they will not believe.

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* v.33 : See sūrah 2, note 7, as well as 8:55 and the corresponding note 58. In this particular context, “the Sustainer’s word” seems to be synonymous with “the way of God” (sunnat Allāh) concerning deliberate sinners and deniers of the truth (Manār XI, 359). The particle anna in annahum (lit., “that they”) is, thus, indicative of the purport of the divine “word” referred to, and is best expressed by a colon.