Surah 56. Al-Waqia, Ayah 45

I.e., to the exclusion of all moral considerations. For the meaning of the term mutraf, see surah {11}. note [147].

Cf. xxxiv. 34, and xliii. 23. We must read verses 45-46 together. They had wealth and the good things of life, but they used them in self-indulgence and shameless crime, and now they are in humiliation. A) Wickedness supreme: i.e. their associating others with Allah in His divinity.