The Clans
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[33:73]
[And so it is] that God imposes suffering on the hypocrites, both men and women, as well as on the men and women who ascribe divinity to aught beside Him. And [so, too, it is] that God turns in His mercy unto the believing men and believing women: for God is indeed much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace!

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* v.73 : In other words, on those who offend against what their own reason and conscience would have them do. This suffering, whether in this world or in the hereafter, is but a causal consequence – as the lām al-‘āqibah at the beginning of this sentence shows – of man’s moral failure, and not an arbitrary act of God. (Cf. in this connection note 7 on 2:7. which speaks of God’s “sealing” the hearts of those who are bent on denying the truth.)