So they will deny you, [disbelievers], in what you say,1011 and you cannot avert [punishment] or [find] help. And whoever commits injustice1012 among you - We will make him taste a great punishment.
Notes
[1011] At the time of Judgement the false objects of worship will betray their worshippers and deny them.
[1012] Specifically, association of others with Allāh.
Verse 19 of Surah Al-Furqan (25:19), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 361 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Al-Mukhtasar
O idolaters! Verily, those you worshipped other than Allah have belied you in your claims against them, so you cannot fend off the punishment from yourselves nor help them due to your incapability. O believers! Whoever oppresses from amongst you by ascribing partners to Allah, I shall make him suffer a great punishment, just like I will make the ones mentioned suffer.
Thus they will deny all what you say6, so you cannot avert [punishment] nor can you get any help. Whoever among you does wrong7, We will make him taste a great punishment.
Notes
[6] i.e., False gods will deny their worshipers on the Day of Judgment.
[7] i.e., associate partners with Allah.
Thus they (false gods - all deities other than Allâh) will belie you (polytheists) regarding what you say (that they are gods besides Allâh): then you can neither avert (the punishment), nor get help. And whoever among you does wrong (i.e. sets up rivals to Allâh), We shall make him taste a great torment.
Thus they will give you the lie regarding what ye say, then ye can neither avert (the doom) nor obtain help. And whoso among you doeth wrong, We shall make him taste great torment.
(Allah will say): "Now have they proved you liars in what ye say: so ye cannot avert (your penalty) nor (get) help." And whoever among you does wrong, him shall We cause to taste of a grievous Penalty.
So they shall indeed give you the lie in what you say, then you shall not be able to ward off or help, and whoever among you is unjust, We will make him taste a great chastisement.
able either to turn it about or vindicate (yourselves). And whoever of you does injustice, We will make him taste a great torment.
And who is more astray than he who invokes besides Allāh those who will not respond to him until the Day of Resurrection [i.e., never], and they, of their invocation, are unaware. …
