text: 'Those who believe and those who are Jews, and Sabaeans and Christians - whosoever believes in God and the Last Day and does good work - there shall no fear come upon them, neither shall they grieve.'\n\nSābi'ūn appears to be a coordinate with the accusative nouns before it, and should accordingly have been accusative, but it is nominative. Here again there is another (if less common) reading wa'l-sābi'īn making it accusative with no shift. Muslim scholars have expressed various views to explain the nominative sābi'ūn. \n\nSome see the nominative as justifiable because when inna is followed by an invariable noun (here al-ladhina), a following noun in conjunction could either be accusative governed by inna, or nominative, cancelling the government of inna. Rāzī prefers this view. Others see the nominative as marking a fresh sentence, with an unexpressed predicate, i.e. wa'l-sābi'ūn kadhālik, in the sense that those who believe, the Jews, the Christians, those who believe in God and the Last Day and do good work shall not fear nor shall they grieve, and this also applies to the sābi'ūn. As Khalīl and Sibawaih put it.\n\nThe sābi'ūn have not been co-ordinated with the foregoing groups to bring out that, of all the groups mentioned, they are the most forward. The intended effect of the verse is something like: 'God will accept repentance from these groups, should they believe and do good works and He will wash away their sins, so that even the sābi'ūn will be treated in this manner if they too believe'.