The Spider
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE
[29:23]
And [thus it is:] they who are bent on denying the truth of God’s messages and of their [ultimate] meeting with Him – it is they who abandon all hope of My grace and mercy: and it is they whom grievous suffering awaits [in the life to come].


* v.23 : Implying that such people deprive themselves of God’s grace and mercy (which is the twofold significance of the term rahmah in this context) by rejecting all belief in His existence: in other words, belief in God – or one’s readiness to believe in Him – is, in and by itself, already an outcome of His grace and mercy, just as suffering in the hereafter is an outcome of one’s being “bent on denying the truth.”