Tafsir of Ta-Ha 20:72-76

49

It may also be interpreted like this: "It cannot be that we should prefer you to these plain Signs which have come before us and to that Being Who has created us."

50

This is a saying of Allah, which has been added to the foregoing words of the magicians.

51

This is the most terrible of all the punishments that have been mentioned in the Qur'an. The criminal will prefer death to the horrible life in Hell, but death will not come to him. He will remain in that state of agony without any hope of relief from it.