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Surah 7. Al-A'raf, Ayah 39

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وَقَالَتْ أُولَىٰهُمْ لِأُخْرَىٰهُمْ فَمَا كَانَ لَكُمْ عَلَيْنَا مِن فَضْلٍ فَذُوقُوا۟ ٱلْعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْسِبُونَ
Waq a lat ool a hum liokhr a hum fam a k a na lakum AAalayn a min fa d lin fa th ooqoo alAAa tha ba bim a kuntum taksiboon a
And the first of them will say unto the last of them: "So you were in no wise superior to us!30 Taste, then, this suffering for all [the evil] that you were wont to do!"
  - Mohammad Asad

I.e., "You went the wrong way, as we did, out of your own free will, and you bear the same responsibility as we do." Another possible interpretation is: "You are not superior to us because you have learnt nothing from our mistakes."

Then the first will say to the last: "If we were to blame, you too, were no better than us; now taste the punishment of your misdeeds."
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Then the leaders will say to their followers, 'You were no better than us! So taste the torment for what you used to commit.'
  - Mustafa Khattab
And the first of them saith unto the last of them : Ye were no whit better than us, so taste the doom for what ye used to earn.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Then the first will say to the last: "see then! no advantage have ye over us; so taste ye of the penalty for all that ye did!" 1020
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Wrong-doers have really no sense of honour towards each other. "Honour among thieves" is an exceptional, not an ordinary, experience. In real life, guilt and crime are apt to indulge in mean spite and bitter recriminations against accomplices.

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