And indeed, My punishment, that is the severe punishment.
It is told in verses 33: 72-73 that, Adhikr is revealed to punish hypocritical men and women as well as the Mushrik men and women and to accept the repentance of believing men and women. As explained in verse 4: 31: “The servants who consider Lord Allah as the Impartial don’t invoke any other deity with Allah, nor kill any soul whom Allah has forbidden except in the Light of Truth, and don’t commit fornication. Whoever does so, he has fallen in the heinous sins. The punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Judgment and he will remain disgraced forever in it, except those who repented and believed and acted honorable deeds. Then for such one, Lord will replace their evil deeds with the best ones, since Allah is the Oft-forgiving, the Merciful”. It is told in verses 41: 41-43: “Adhikr is the Splendid Book in which no falsehood will enter before or after Its codification. It is the only Book revealed for all 313 Messengers, indeed your Lord is Oft-Forgiving for the believers and giving painful torment for the Fujjar”. Lord will tell the believer on the Day of Judgment as told in verses 89: 27-30: “Oh! the one whose soul has become tranquil with Adhikr, you return into your Lord by pleasing Him and pleased by Him; so you enter in My Service, you enter in My Paradise”. It is told in verses 89: 23-26: “On the Day when Hell is brought, man will remember that how better it would have been if he had used the Book Dhikra, and he will regret that he wasted his life in this world. So, on that Day, none will punish as severely as His punishment, and none will bind as severely as His binding”. See explanation 2: 286; 5: 98 and 12: 53.