And it your wishes or your remorse will not benefit you blind ones this day given that you did wrong that is to say given that it has become clear to you that you were wrongdoers through your idolatry in this world that you together with your companions will be sharing in the chastisement this constitutes the justification on the basis of an implied lām sc. li-annakum … for the ‘lack of benefit’; idh substitutes for al-yawma ‘this day’.