The Story
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[28:78]
Answered he: "This [wealth] has been given to me only by virtue of the knowledge that is in me!"
Did he not know that God had destroyed [the arrogant of] many a generation that preceded him – people who were greater than he in power, and richer in what they had amassed?
But such as are lost in sin may not be asked about their sins....

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* v.78 : I.e., “as a result of my own experience, shrewdness, and ability” (cf. 39:49 and the corresponding note 55).
* Obviously implying that “such as are lost in sin” (al-mujrimūn) are, as a rule, blind to their own failings and, therefore, not responsive to admonition.