Obstinate

And among those around you of the bedouins are hypocrites, and [also] from the people of Madīnah. They have persisted in hypocrisy. You, [O Muḥammad], do not know them, [but] We know them. We will punish them twice [in this world]; then they will be returned to a great punishment.

The bedouins are stronger in disbelief and hypocrisy and more likely not to know the limits of what [laws] Allāh has revealed to His Messenger. And Allāh is Knowing and Wise.

And that was ʿAad, who rejected the signs of their Lord and disobeyed His messengers and followed the order of every obstinate tyrant.

And they requested decision [i.e., victory from Allāh], and disappointed, [therefore], was every obstinate tyrant.

[Allāh will say], "Throw into Hell every obstinate disbeliever,

No! Indeed, he has been toward Our verses obstinate.