Jonah
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[10:40]
And there are among them such as will in time come to believe in this [divine writ], just as there are among them such as will never believe in it; and thy Sustainer is fully aware as to who are the spreaders of corruption.

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* v.40 : The verb yu’minūn, which occurs twice in this verse, can be understood as connoting either the present tense – “[such as] believe,” resp. “[such as] do not believe” – or the future tense. The future tense (adopted by me) is the meaning unequivocally attributed to it by Tabarī and Ibn Kathīr; some of the other authorities, like Zamakhsharī and Rāzī, prefer the present tense, but nevertheless regard the other interpretation as legitimate. (See also Manār XI, 380.)