前文描述了不义者在审判日所处的可怕境况："即使不义者拥有地上的一切，并且加倍拥有，他们也必定会用来赎取复活日的严厉刑罚。真主将向他们显示他们所未曾预料的事物。他们所做的恶行将明显地呈现在他们面前，他们将被他们过去所嘲笑的事物所包围。"（第47-48节）现在，此章指明了回归的道路，敞开了真主慈悯的大门，只要求真诚的悔罪即可进入。此时，真主显示了对所有犯罪者的宽恕与慈悯，无论他们所犯的罪多么深重。他邀请他们所有人以悔罪之心归向他，不要怀有丝毫绝望。这一承受真主恩典的邀请，同时伴随着一幅景象：如果他们不在为时已晚之前把握机会悔罪，等待他们的将是怎样的刑罚。

The previous passage included a description of the terrible situations in which the wrongdoers find themselves on the Day of Judgement: “If the wrongdoers possessed all that is on earth, and twice as much, they would surely offer it all as ransom from the awful suffering on the Day of Resurrection. For God will have made obvious to them something they have never reckoned with. Obvious to them will have become the evil of what they had done; and they will be overwhelmed by that which they used to deride.” (Verses 47-48) Now the sūrah shows the way back leaving the gates of God’s mercy wide open, requiring nothing for admittance except sincere repentance. At this point, God shows the prospect of His forgiveness and mercy available to all those who have transgressed no matter how great the sins they have committed are. He invites them all to turn back to Him with repentance, entertaining no feeling of despair. This invitation to benefit by God’s grace is coupled with an image of what awaits them of suffering if they do not take this opportunity to repent before it is too late.

[真主说]：“你们这些过分亏待自己的仆人啊！不要对真主的慈悯感到绝望，真主必赦宥一切罪过，祂确是至赦的，确是至慈的。”（39:53）

Say: [Thus speaks God]: You servants of Mine who have transgressed against their own souls! Do not despair of God’s mercy: God forgives all sins; He alone is Much- Forgiving, Merciful. (Verse 53)

是神圣的慈悲将抹去每一项过犯，无论它是什么。这是向所有已陷入深重迷途、过着使自己远离正道的生活之人发出的召唤，告诉他们希望依然存在，真主的慈悲与宽恕离他们并不遥远。真主对祂的仆人最为慈悲。祂知道他们的软弱，以及影响他们的各种因素，无论这些因素来自他们自身还是来自社会。祂知道撒旦在每个角落为他们设下陷阱，动用各种各样的力量，从不停止引诱他们的企图。此外，真主知道，当人与真理的联系减弱时，他很容易堕落；而他的私欲与志向也很容易打破他的平衡，将他拉向这边或那边，引他走入迷途。

It is divine mercy that will erase every transgression, whatever it happens to be. It is an invitation to all those who have gone far into error and led a life that has taken them far astray, telling them hope still remains available and God’s mercy and forgiveness are not far from them. God is most merciful to His servants. He knows their weaknesses and the factors that work on them, whether these are within themselves or in society. He is aware that Satan sets traps for them at every corner, using a great variety of forces, never tiring of his attempt to seduce them. Moreover, God knows that man can easily fall when he lets his bond to the truth weaken, and that his desires and aspirations can easily disturb his equilibrium, pulling him this way or that, leading him into error.

既然真主深知人的这一切，便赐予他充足的帮助，为他敞开慈悯之门。在人犯下罪过之后，真主并不会立即追究，而是先为他提供一切改正错误、修正行为的途径和方法。然而，当人陷入罪中越来越深，以为自己已被真主彻底抛弃、一切都已无可挽回时，正是在这绝望之际，他听到了一段美好的话语，表明他所能得到的无限慈悯：“你说：[真主如此说]：你们这些对自己过分的众仆啊！不要对真主的慈悯绝望，真主必定赦免一切罪过，他确是至赦的，确是至慈的。”（第53节）

As God knows all this about man, He provides him with ample help, opening the gates of His mercy. He does not take him to task for his sin until He has facilitated for him all the ways and means to rectify his error and mend his ways. Nevertheless, when man goes deep into sin, thinking that he is totally rejected by God and that all is lost, he hears at this point of utter despair a fine address expressing the unlimited mercy available to him: “Say: [Thus speaks God]: You servants of Mine who have transgressed against their own souls! Do not despair of God’s mercy: God forgives all sins; He alone is Much-Forgiving, Merciful.” (Verse 53)

这意味着，尽管他屡次犯罪，走得很远，违逆了真主，他所需要的，只是悔改，便能蒙受真主的恩典，使他身上一切善的东西重新复苏。他所需要做的，只是穿过那扇敞开着的大门，回到真主面前；那门没有守卫，也无需任何特别的许可。

This means that despite his repeated sins, going far into disobedience of God, all he needs to receive God’s grace that revives all that is good in him is to repent. All he needs to do is turn back to God through the gate that is left wide open, without a guard, and with no need for any special permission:

回归你的主，在苦难降临到你身上之前顺服于祂，因为那时你将得不到任何救助。在苦难突然降临、你毫无察觉之前，遵循你的主所降示给你的最好之事。