Mary
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE
[19:70]
for, indeed, We know best as to which of then is most deserving of the fires of hell.


* v.70 : Lit., “of burning therein”: an allusion to the fact that not every one of the sinners will be irrevocably consigned to the suffering described in the Qur’ān as hell. (The particle thumma which introduces this clause has here the function of an explanatory conjunction with the preceding statement and is, therefore, best rendered as “for.”)