[2608] That is to say, continue in your current state of Denial, refusing to heed the Signs of God with which you are satisfied, just as I will continue following the dictates of God and the path that leads to His Pleasure and I will not be hurt by your intransigence (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī). This statement marks a firm stand and a clear break from the Deniers (cf. Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī): “Say ˹Muhammad˺: My people labour in the state in which you are, as I will be labouring ˹my own way˺, for sure you will come to know to whom belongs the last round in the land—indeed the wrongdoers do not prosper” (6: 135).