Repentance
[9:55]
Let not, then, their worldly goods or [the happiness which they may derive from] their children excite thy admiration: God but wants to chastise them by these means in this worldly life, and [to cause] their souls to depart while they are [still] denying the truth.
* v.55 : Sc., “for which sin they will have to suffer in the life to come.” See also 3:178 and 8:28, and the corresponding notes.