57إِنَّ الَّذينَ يُؤذونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسولَهُ لَعَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ فِي الدُّنيا وَالآخِرَةِ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُم عَذابًا مُهينًاMuhammad AsadVerily, as for those who [knowingly] affront God and His Apostle - God will reject them1 in this world and in the life to come; and shameful suffering will He ready for them.In classical Arabic, the term la'nah is more or less synonymous with ib'ad ("removal into distance" or "banishment"); hence, God's la'nah denotes "His rejection of a sinner from all that is good" (Lisan al-'Arab) or "exclusion from His grace" (Manar 11, 50). The term mal'un which occurs in verse 61 below signifies, therefore, "one who is bereft of God's grace".