The Believers
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[23:106]
They will exclaim: "O our Sustainer! Our bad luck has overwhelmed us, and so we went astray!

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* v.106 : Lit., “we became people who go astray.” This allegorical “dialogue” is meant to bring out the futile excuse characteristic of so many sinners who attribute their failings to an abstract “bad luck” (which is the meaning of shiqwah in this context); and thus, indirectly, it stresses the element of free will – and, therefore, of responsibility – in man’s actions and behaviour.