(And verily, if We cause him to taste mercy) through wealth and offspring (after some hurt that hath touched him) after being touched by some hardship, (he will say: This is my own) because of some goodness which Allah knows that I have in me; (and I deem not that the Hour will ever rise) as claimed by Muhammad (pbuh); thus denying the resurrection, (and if I am brought back to my Lord) as Muhammad (pbuh) says, (I surely shall be) in the Hereafter (better off with Him) I will enter Paradise; this is what 'Utbah Ibn Rabi'ah and his host said. (But We verily shall tell those who disbelieve (all) that they did) in their state of disbelief, (and We verily shall make them taste hard punishment) a severe punishment in hell: one sort of punishment after another.
