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sa-ʾaṣrifu ʿan ʾāyātiya lladhīna yatakabbarūna fī l-ʾarḍi bi-ghayri l-ḥaqqi wa-ʾin yaraw kulla ʾāyatin lā yuʾminū bihā wa-ʾin yaraw sabīla r-rushdi lā yattakhidhūhu sabīlan wa-ʾin yaraw sabīla l-ghayyi yattakhidhūhu sabīlan dhālika bi-ʾannahum kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā wa-kānū ʿanhā ghāfilīna
Soon I shall turn away from My signs those who are unduly arrogant in the earth: [even] though they should see every sign, they will not believe in it, and if they see the way of rectitude they will not take it as [their] way, and if they see the way of error they will take it as [their] way. That is because they deny Our signs and are oblivious to them.’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah al-‘Araf – Verse 146
146 . “Soon I will (allow to) turn away from My signs those who are arrogant in the earth unjustly; while (even) if they see any sign, they will not believe in it, and if they see the way of rectitude they do not take it for a way, and if they see the way of perverseness they take it for a way. This is because they belied Our signs and were heedless of them.”
The statements, which have formed this verse and the verse after it, are indeed a conclusion drawn from the previous verses upon the fate of Pharaoh and his people, and also the arrogant persons of the Children of Israel. At first, the verse says:
Then the Qur’ān points to three parts of the qualities of these proud and arrogant people and that how they were dispossessed of the success of the truth. It says:
And, also, if they see the straight path and the right way, they do not choose it as their own way. The verse says:
After mentioning these three qualities, all of which denote to their arrogance against the truth, the Qur’ān points to the reason of them and says: