﴿ ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَٰهُ أَسْفَلَ سَٰفِلِينَ ﴾

“and thereafter We reduce him to the lowest of low”

Then in the case of certain individuals of his species We reduced him to the lowest of the low — a metaphor for old age and weakness at which point a believer’s deeds are fewer than when he was young; but he will still have his reward as God exalted be He says