﴿ عُتُلٍّۭ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ ﴾

“[or] one who is cruel, by greed possessed, and, in addition to all this, utterly useless [to his fellow-men].”

coarse-grained crude moreover ignoble an adopted son of Quraysh — namely al-Walīd b. al-Mughīra whose father claimed him after eighteen years; Ibn ‘Abbās said ‘We know of no one whom God has described in the derogatory way in which He describes him blighting him with ignominy that will never leave him the adverbial qualifier ba‘da dhālika ‘moreover’ is semantically connected to zanīm ‘ignoble’ —