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Surah 39. Az-Zumar, Ayah 24

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أَفَمَن يَتَّقِى بِوَجْهِهِۦ سُوٓءَ ٱلْعَذَابِ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ ۚ وَقِيلَ لِلظَّـٰلِمِينَ ذُوقُوا۟ مَا كُنتُمْ تَكْسِبُونَ
Afaman yattaqee biwajhihi sooa alAAa tha bi yawma alqiy a mati waqeela li l thth a limeena th ooqoo m a kuntum taksiboon a
Could, then, one who shall have nothing but his [bare] face to protect him31 from the awful suffering [that will befall him] on Resurrection Day [be likened to the God-conscious]? [On that Day,] the evildoers will be told: "Taste [now] what you have earned [in life]!"
  - Mohammad Asad

Lit., "who will protect himself with his face": an idiomatic phrase implying that the person concerned has nothing whatever with which to protect himself.

Is the one who shall face the terrors of the Day of Resurrection be like the one who shall enter paradise? To such wrongdoers it will be said: "Now taste the fruits of your labor."
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Are those who will only have their 'bare' faces to shield themselves from the awful torment on Judgment Day 'better than those in Paradise'? It will 'then' be said to the wrongdoers: 'Reap what you sowed!'
  - Mustafa Khattab
Is he then, who will strike his face against the awful doom upon the Day of Resurrection (as he who doeth right)? And it will be said unto the wrong doers: Taste what ye used to earn.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Is then one who has to fear the brunt of the Penalty on the Day of Judgement (and receive it) on his face (like one guarded therefrom)? It will be said to the wrongdoers: "Taste ye (the fruits of) what ye earned!" 4280 4281
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The unrepentant Sinners will receive the full Penalty on the Day of Judgment. They will receive it full in the face, i.e., their whole being will be affected by it. Their hands will be tied, and they cannot therefore use their hands to ward off the Penalty of the Fire: in any case their hands will not have the power to ward it off. Are such helpless people to be compared for a moment with people who have received Grace and are therefore guarded from all harm and danger? Certainly not. To the evil the fruit of their deed, and to the good the grace of their Lord!

That is, of all their misdeeds, all the evil which they did in the world.

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