إِنَّ
ٱلَّذِينَ
كَفَرُواْ
وَمَاتُواْ
وَهُمۡ
كُفَّارٞ
فَلَن
يُقۡبَلَ
مِنۡ
أَحَدِهِم
مِّلۡءُ
ٱلۡأَرۡضِ
ذَهَبٗا
وَلَوِ
ٱفۡتَدَىٰ
بِهِۦٓۗ
أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ
لَهُمۡ
عَذَابٌ
أَلِيمٞ
وَمَا
لَهُم
مِّن
نَّٰصِرِينَ
٩١
Indeed, those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers - never would the [whole] capacity of the earth in gold be accepted from one of them if he would [seek to] ransom himself with it. For those there will be a painful punishment, and they will have no helpers.
— Saheeh International
Indeed, if each of those who disbelieve then die as disbelievers were to offer a ransom of enough gold to fill the whole world, it would never be accepted from them. It is they who will suffer a painful punishment, and they will have no helpers.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
Lee Tafsir
Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Neither Repentance of the Disbeliever Upon Death, Nor His Ransoming Himself on the Day of Resurrection Shall be Accepted
Allah threatens and warns those who revert to disbelief after they believed and who thereafter insist on disbelief until death. He states that in this case, no repentance shall be
…Neither Repentance of the Disbeliever Upon Death, Nor His Ransoming Himself on the Day of Resurrection Shall be Accepted
Allah threatens and warns thos
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