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sins in the hereafter. However, this punishment also reaches them
while they are still in this world. They mock the believers and the
prophets sent by Allah, and Allah mocks them. Allah makes this ab-
solutely clear:
But Allah is mocking them and drawing them on as they
wander blindly in their excessive insolence. (Surat al-Baqara,
15)
By misusing the time allotted to them, the unbelievers fall into a
terrible trap. Throughout their lives they struggle against the Qur'an's
morality, Allah's prophets, and the believers, thinking that they will
suffer no negative consequences. In fact, no matter how arrogant they
may be in this life, they will die and be buried whenever Allah wills
this to happen. Allah withdraws the property of which they are so
proud and leaves their bodies to rot beneath the ground. All of this is
inescapable – they will die just like everybody else. Their mortality
and inability to escape death are the greatest proofs of their desperate
position.
Moreover, Allah sends a lot of trouble, concern, and difficulty to
these people. While they believe themselves superior, all that happens
to them reveals just how helpless they really are. Allah gives us sev-
eral examples in the Qur'an of the state into which the unbelievers will
fall. In the coming pages, we will speak of those who engage in mock-
ery and the end that awaits them.
The End of Those Who Mock Others
Pharaoh has gone down in history as a byword for unbelief and
cruelty. In the Qur'an Allah describes his arrogant attitude and that of
his court:
Then We sent Moses and his brother Aaron, with Our signs