The Children of Israel
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[17:97]
And he whom God guides, he alone has found the right way; whereas for those whom He lets go astray thou canst never find anyone to protect them from Him: and [so, when] We shall gather them together on the Day of Resurrection, [they will lie] prone upon their faces, blind and dumb and deaf, with hell as their goal; [and] every time [the fire] abates, We shall increase for them [its] blazing flame.

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* v.97 : The phrase “for them” is meant, I believe, to stress the individual character of the suffering allegorized in the Qur’ān as a “blazing flame” (sa‘īr). For a further discussion of this terminology and its philosophical implications, see Appendix I.