Then you taste (the punishment) because of you forgot the meeting of this Day, indeed We also have forgotten you, and you taste the eternal punishment for what you had been doing.
Today, only hypocrites and their blind followers are reading this verse. But without considering the soul and the Hereafter, they are learning, teaching, and propagating books written by creatures, rejecting Adhikr—the Best Interpretation of the Lord’s Book. This verse portrays the pathetic condition that will befall these aimless hypocrites and their heedless followers in the Hereafter. The scene of blaming, cursing, and quarreling between the hypocritical leaders and their misguided blind followers in the Hereafter is explained in verses 2: 165-167. The one believer in 1,000 who holds fast to Lord Allah by holding Adhikr—the Unbreakable Rope, as mentioned in verse 2: 256—propagates Adhikr to all mankind and also engages in organic cultivation and planting trees, encouraging all mankind to do so for the welfare of 1,000 communities of the Lord’s creatures. This way, he can inherit Paradise in the seventh phase (Hereafter), as explained in verses 3: 136 and 7: 43. The heedful have confirmed belief in the Hereafter, as explained in verses 2: 2-4. Verse 16: 97 says: “Whether man or woman, whoever does honorable deeds and is a believer, indeed We will give them a pure, glorious life in this world, and We will give a reward according to their best deeds in this world.” Remember that since Adhikr is Prosperity, and there is no poverty after It, only the believer will have a glorious life in this world. Those who do honorable deeds without becoming believers will receive a reward from Lord Allah according to their best deeds under the Best Book—Husna. See explanation 2: 62.