So taste the chastisement on account of your forgetting the encounter of this Day.1 We, too, have forgotten you. Taste the eternal chastisement as a requital for your misdeeds.”
Footnotes
[1]
That is, “You became so absorbed in pleasure-seeking in the world that you totally forgot that you had to meet your Lord on this Day.”
[2]
The Arabic word used is a derivative of the word fateh, which literally means ‘open’; according to Az-Zamakhshari and other exegetes it means ‘open a way for us to distinguish between good and evil’.