But those who have earned evil will have a reward of like evil:(1416) ignominy will cover their (faces): No defender will they have from (the wrath of) Allah. Their faces will be covered, as it were, with pieces from the depth of the darkness(1417) of night: they are companions of the Fire: they will abide therein (for aye)!
1416 Note that the evil reward is for those who have "earned" evil, i.e., brought it on themselves by the deliberate choice of evil. Further, in the justice of Allah, they will be requited with evil similar to, and not greater in quantity or intensity, than the evil they had done - unlike the good, who, in Allah's generosity, get a reward far greater than anything they have earned or could possibly earn. 1417 Night is the negation of Light and metaphorically of joy and felicity. The intensive is indicated by "the depth of the darkness of Night."