Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

but if they turn away,
then your duty is only to communicate;
and Allah sees best the servants.
21 Those who defy Allah’s signs
and kill the prophets unjustly,¹
and kill those who call for justice
from among the people,
inform them of a painful punishment.
22 They are the ones whose works have failed
in this world and the Hereafter,
and they will have no helpers.
23 Have you not regarded those
who were given a share of the Book,
who are summoned to the Book of Allah
in order that it may judge between them,
whereat a part of them refuse to comply
and they are disregardful?
24 That is because they say,
‘The Fire shall not touch us
except for a number of days,’
and they have been misled in their religion
by what they used to fabricate.
25 But how will it be [with them]
when We gather them
on a day in which there is no doubt,
and every soul shall be recompensed fully
for what it has earned,
and they will not be wronged?
26 Say, ‘O Allah, Master of all sovereignty!