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(68) رَبَّنَآ ءَاتِهِمْ ضِعْفَيِنِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ وَالْعَنْهُمْ لَعْناً
كَبِيراً
68. "O' our Lord! Give them double chastisement and curse them with a great
curse."
Commentary:
This holy verse indicates that on the Day of Hereafter the misguided hellish
people will be excited and ask for a grievous punishment from Allah (s.w.t.) for
those who misguided them. They will ask Him to give them two kinds of
punishment, one punishment for their own aberration and another one for their
misleading them. They say:
"O' our Lord! Give them double chastisement and curse
them with a great curse."
It is certain that they deserve a curse and chastisement, but 'double
chastisement' and ' a great curse' is for the attempt that they applied for
leading others astray.
It is interesting that in Sura Al-'A'rāf, No. 7, when these aberrant
followers ask a double chastisement for their leaders, they will be told: "…For
each one there is double (chastisement), but you do not know'."[1] That is,
there will certainly be a double chastisement both for them and for you.
The double chastisement for the leaders of disbelief and aberration is clear,
but the double chastisement for the aberrant followers is a question.
The reason of it is that they have a punishment for their aberration, and
another one for the sake of their strengthening
[1] Sura Al-'A'rāf, No. 7, verse 38
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