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Surah 10. Yunus, Ayah 27

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وَٱلَّذِينَ كَسَبُوا۟ ٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ جَزَآءُ سَيِّئَةٍۭ بِمِثْلِهَا وَتَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۖ مَّا لَهُم مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ مِنْ عَاصِمٍ ۖ كَأَنَّمَآ أُغْشِيَتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ قِطَعًا مِّنَ ٱلَّيْلِ مُظْلِمًا ۚ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلنَّارِ ۖ هُمْ فِيهَا خَـٰلِدُونَ
Wa a lla th eena kasaboo a l ssayyi a ti jaz a o sayyiatin bimithlih a watarhaquhum th illatun m a lahum mina All a hi min AA as imin kaannam a oghshiyat wujoohuhum qi t aAAan mina allayli mu th liman ol a ika a s ha bu a l nn a ri hum feeh a kh a lidoon a
But as for those who have done evil deeds - the recompense of an evil deed shall be the like thereof;42 and - since they will have none to defend them against God - ignominy will overshadow them as though their faces were veiled by the night's own darkness:43 it is they who are destined for the fire, therein to abide.
  - Mohammad Asad

In contrast with the multiple "rewards" for good deeds, the recompense of evil will be only commensurate with the deed itself. (See also note [46] on the last sentence of 41:50 .)

Lit., "by a piece of the night, densely dark".

As for those who have done evil deeds, they will be rewarded with like evil: disgrace will cover them - they shall have none to protect them from Allah - as if their faces have been covered with patches of the dense darkness of night. They will become the inmates of the Fire; they will live therein forever.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
As for those who commit evil, the reward of an evil deed is its equivalent. Humiliation will cover them- with no one to protect them from Allah- as if their faces were covered with patches of the night's deep darkness. It is they who will be the residents of the Fire. They will be there forever.
  - Mustafa Khattab
And those who earn ill deeds, (for them) requital of each ill deed by the like thereof; and ignominy overtaketh them. They have no protector from Allah. As if their faces had been covered with a cloak of darkest night. Such are rightful owners of the Fire; they will abide therein.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
But those who have earned evil will have a reward of like evil: ignominy will cover their (faces): no defender will they have from (the wrath of) Allah: their faces will be covered as it were with pieces from the depth of the darkness of Night: they are Companions of the Fire: they will abide therein (for aye)! 1416 1417
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Note that the evil reward is for those who have "earned" evil, i.e., brought it on themselves by the deliberate choice of evil. Further, in the justice of Allah, they will be requited with evil similar to, and not greater in quantity or intensity, than the evil they had done,-unlike the good, who, in Allah's generosity, get a reward far greater than anything they have earned or could possibly earn.

Night is the negation of Light and metaphorically of joy and felicity. The intensive is indicated by "the depth of the darkness of Night."

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