Inna rabbaka labilmirsad (surah Fajr: 14)

Tafseer Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi

(89:14) Truly your Lord is ever watchful. *7

Inna Rabbaka labil mirsaad

*7) The words "ever lying in ambush" have been used metaphorically for keeping watch on the movements and activities of the wicked and mischievous people. An ambush is a place where a person lies hiding in wait to attack somebody by surprise. The victim, thoughtless of his fate, comes and falls a prey. The same is the case against AIlah of those wicked people who spread mischief in the world and have no sense and tear that there is God above them, Who is watching alI their misdeeds. Therefore, they go on committing everyday more and more evils fearlessly until they reach the limit which Allah dces not permit them to transgress. At that very moment His scourge descends upon them suddenly.