﴿ ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَٰهُ أَسْفَلَ سَٰفِلِينَ ﴾

“and thereafter We reduce him to the lowest of low”

(Then We reduced him) in the Hereafter (to the lowest of the low) i.e. the Fire; it is also said that the above means: We have created the children of Adam in the best of forms when they are in the pick of their youth, then We reduce them to abject old age whereby no good deed is recorded in their favour except that which they used to do in their youth and prime,