Those before them have schemed, but to God is all scheming. He knows what every person earns and the ingrates will come to know to whom is the ultimate abode.
Translation endnotes
[13:40-43] These verses contain one of the many implied prophecies about the mathematical miracle of the Quran, which was designed by God to be unveiled in 1974. The Arabic word we translated with the word "reckoning" is hesab, which also means "to number" or "to count." The Arabic of the Quran contains many such rich meanings, which are usually lost in translation. In the endnotes, we have pulled the attention to a few of them. Furthermore, the reduction of the land from its edges might be a prophetic reference to the feared consequence of global warming. Melting of the icebergs can increase the height of ocean and claim the shores of many regions, thereby reducing the land from its edges.