Saba
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[34:51]
IF THOU couldst but see [how the deniers of the truth will fare on Resurrection Day,] when they will shrink in terror, with nowhere to escape – since they will have been seized from so close nearby –

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* v.51 : Lit., “from a place nearby” – i.e., from within their own selves: cf. 17:13 (“every human being’s destiny have We tied to his neck”) and the corresponding note 17. The same idea is expressed in 13:5 (“it is they who carry the shackles [of their own making] around their necks”), as well as in the second part of verse 33 of the present sūrah (“We shall have put shackles around the necks of those who had been bent on denying the truth”). See also 50:41 and the corresponding note 33.