The Prophets
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[21:13]
[and at the same time they seemed to hear a scornful voice]: "Do not try to flee, but return to all that [once] gave you pleasure and corrupted your whole being, and [return] to your homes, so that you might be called to account [for what you have done]!"

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* v.13 : For an explanation of the phrase mā utriftum fīhi, see sūrah 11, note 147.
* The Qur’ān does not say whose words these are, but the tenor of this passage indicates, I believe, that it is the scornful, self-accusing voice of the sinners’ own conscience: hence my interpolation, between brackets, at the beginning of this verse.