ٱلْفُرْقَان : ٧٧

  • قُلۡ Say
  • مَا Not
  • يَعۡبَؤُاْ will care
  • بِكُمۡ for you
  • رَبِّي my Lord
  • لَوۡلَا if not
  • دُعَآؤُكُمۡۖ your prayer (is to Him)
  • فَقَدۡ But verily
  • كَذَّبۡتُمۡ you have denied
  • فَسَوۡفَ so soon
  • يَكُونُ will be
  • لِزَامَۢا the inevitable (punishment)
Say, "What would my Lord care for you if not for your supplication?"1 For you [disbelievers] have denied, so it [i.e., your denial] is going to be adherent.
Footnotes
1

i.e., faith and worship. An alternative meaning is "What would my Lord do with you..."

[1041] It will remain with them, causing punishment to be required and imperative upon them.

Say, O Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, to the people of Mecca: 'My Lord would not be concerned with you (maa is for negation) were it not for your supplications, to Him [when you are] in adversity, which He then removes. But, why should He be concerned with you when, you have denied, the Messenger and Al-Qur'an, and so that, the chastisement, will remain binding', permanently bound to you in the Hereafter, in addition to what will befall you in this world; and so on the day of Badr seventy of them were slain (the response to [the conditional] lawlaa, 'were it not for .' is indicated the preceding words).