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Surah 34. Saba, Ayah 8

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أَفْتَرَىٰ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَم بِهِۦ جِنَّةٌۢ ۗ بَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ فِى ٱلْعَذَابِ وَٱلضَّلَـٰلِ ٱلْبَعِيدِ
Aftar a AAal a All a hi ka th iban am bihi jinnatun bali alla th eena l a yuminoona bi a l a khirati fee alAAa tha bi wa al dd al a li albaAAeed i
Does he [knowingly] attribute his own Iying inventions to God - or is he a madman?" Nay, [there is no madness in this Prophet-] but they who will not believe in the life to come are [bound to lose themselves] in suffering and in a profound aberration.5
  - Mohammad Asad

Lit., "remote aberration". (For the Qur'anic use of the term dalal - lit., "error" or "going astray" - in the sense of "aberration", see 12:8 and {95}.) The construction of this phrase points definitely to suffering in this world (in contrast with the suffering in the hereafter spoken of in verse {5} above): for whereas the concept of "aberration" is meaningless in the context of the life to come, it has an obvious meaning in the context of the moral and social confusion - and, hence, of the individual and social suffering - which is the unavoidable consequence of people's loss of belief in the existence of absolute moral values and, thus, in an ultimate divine judgment on the basis of those values.

Has he forged a lie against Allah or is he mad?" Nay! In fact those who do not believe in the Hereafter are doomed, for they are in gross error.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Has he fabricated a lie against Allah or is he insane?' In fact, those who do not believe in the Hereafter are bound for torment and have strayed farthest 'from the truth'.
  - Mustafa Khattab
Hath he invented a lie concerning Allah, or is there in him a madness? Nay, but those who disbelieve in the Hereafter are in torment and far error.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
"Has he invented a falsehood against Allah or has a spirit (seized) him?" Nay it is those who believe not in the Hereafter that are in (real) Penalty and in farthest Error. 3795
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The answer is: the Future Life is the truest of all Truths; so far is the man who teaches it from being demented, that it is those who deny it, that lack knowledge and are in real jeopardy for their souls; for they persecute Truth and must not only suffer defeat, but go farther and farther from Realities and thus suffer the worst hallucination about the next world.

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