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{ هُوَ ٱلَّذِي جَعَلَكُمْ خَلاَئِفَ فِي ٱلأَرْضِ فَمَن كَفَرَ فَعَلَيْهِ كُفْرُهُ وَلاَ يَزِيدُ ٱلْكَافِرِينَ كُفْرُهُمْ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ إِلاَّ مَقْتاً وَلاَ يَزِيدُ ٱلْكَافِرِينَ كُفْرُهُمْ إِلاَّ خَسَاراً }

It is He Who made you successors in the earth khalā’if ‘successors’ is the plural of khalīfa in other words one succeeding the other. So whoever disbelieves of you his disbelief will be to his own detriment that is the evil consequences of his disbelief will be so. And their disbelief does not increase the disbelievers with their Lord in anything except disfavour wrath. And their disbelief does not increase the disbelievers in anything except loss of the reward of the Hereafter.

Tafsir al-Jalalayn, trans. Feras Hamza
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