Surah Al-Ma'arij (المعارج) • The Ascending Stairways

Quran 70:17

70:17

تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

tadʿū man adbara watawallā

It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]

— Saheeh International

and it will claim everyone who rejects the truth, turns away,

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

Calling (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from Faith) [picking and swallowing them up from that great gathering of mankind on the Day of Resurrection just as a bird picks up a food-grain from the earth with its beak and swallows it up] (Tafsir Al-Qurtubî)

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

Juz 29Page 569meccan

Word by Word

تَدْعُوا۟tadʿūInviting
مَنْman(him) who
أَدْبَرَadbaraturned his back
وَتَوَلَّىٰwatawallāand went away