(77) Say, "What would my Lord care for you if not for your supplication?"[1040] For you [disbelievers] have denied, so it [i.e., your denial] is going to be adherent.[1041]
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[1040]- 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.