Saba
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[34:8]
Does he [knowingly] attribute his own lying inventions to God – or is he a madman?"
Nay, [there is no madness in this Prophet –] but they who will not believe in the life to come are [bound to lose themselves] in suffering and in a profound aberration.

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* v.8 : Lit., “remote aberration.” (For the Qur’anic use of the term dalāl – lit., “error” or “going astray” – in the sense of “aberration,” see 12:8 and 95.) The construction of this phrase points definitely to suffering in this world (in contrast with the suffering in the hereafter spoken of in verse 5 above): for whereas the concept of “aberration” is meaningless in the context of the life to come, it has an obvious meaning in the context of the moral and social confusion – and, hence, of the individual and social suffering – which is the unavoidable consequence of people’s loss of belief in the existence of absolute moral values and, thus, in an ultimate divine judgment on the basis of those values.