111 Preface وَمَن يَكسِب إِثمًا فَإِنَّما يَكسِبُهُ عَلىٰ نَفسِهِ ۚ وَكانَ اللَّهُ عَليمًا حَكيمًاYusuf AliAnd if any one earns1 sin. he earns it against His own soul: for God is full of knowledge and wisdom. Kasaba-to earn, to gain, to work for something valuable, to lay up a provision for the future life. We do a day’s labor to earn our livelihood; so in a spiritual sense, whatever good or evil we do in this life, earns us good or evil in the life to come. Inverses 110-112 three cases are considered: (1) if we do ill, and repent. God will forgive: (2) if we do ill and do not repent, thinking that we can hide it, we are wrong; nothing is hidden from God, and we shall suffer the full consequences in the life to come, for we can never evade our personal responsibility: (3) if we do ill, great or small, and impute it to another, our original responsibility for the ill remains, but we add to it something else; for we tie round our necks the guilt of falsehood, which converts even our minor fault into a great sin, and in any case brands us even in this life with shame and ignominy.