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Or have they, the Meccan disbelievers, associates - these being their devils - who have prescribed for them, for the disbelievers, a religion, a corrupt [religion], which Allahu ta’ālā has not given permission for?, such as idolatry and denial of resurrection? And were it not for a [prior] decisive word, in other words, a prior decree to the effect that requital will take place on the Day of Resurrection, it would have been judged between them, and the believers, by chastising the former in this world. Truly the wrongdoers, the disbelievers, will have a painful chastisement.