They played about with it, and expressed doubts about it, whereas the Preacher was most earnest about it, with all his heart and soul in it,
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/44/9
This is appropriate, as in this Sura we are dealing with the folly of those who reject Allah and His Signs, while S. xl. dealt with the individual soul's witness to Faith and Virtue.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/45/2
" "Sustenance" is almost equivalent here to "rain". And "rain" itself, and its revival of a dead earth, refer symbolically to Revelation and its putting new life into a dead soul.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/45/5
Woe to each sinful Dealer in Falsehoods: A soul so dead, as described in the last note, is indeed wretched. It will resort to falsehoods, in worship, in conduct, and in its attitude towards Allah.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/45/7
Note that in each of the verses 8-11 the Penalty is characterised by a certain description, which accords with the crime.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/45/9
If anyone does a righteous deed it is to his own benefit; if he does evil it works against (His own soul). In the end will ye (all) be brought back to your Lord.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/45/15
Allah created the heavens and the earth for just ends and in order that each soul may find the recompense of what it has earned and none of them be wronged. Cf. xliv. 38-39, and n. 4717.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/45/22
But they will not be exempt from producing the natural consequences of evil, viz., further degradation and misery for the soul.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/47/9
But how (will it be) when the angels take their souls at death and smite their faces and their backs? It is all very well for them to practise hypocrisy in this life.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/47/27
Behold ye are those invited to spend (of your substance) in the way of Allah: but among you are some that are niggardly. But any who are niggardly are so at the expense of their own souls.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/47/38