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

the encounter with Allah.
When the Hour overtakes them suddenly,
they will say, ‘Alas for us, for what we neglected in it!’
And they will bear their burdens on their backs.
Look! Evil is what they bear!
32 The life of the world is nothing
but play and diversion,
and the abode of the Hereafter is surely better
for those who are Godwary.
Do you not apply reason?
33 We certainly know that what they say grieves you.
Yet it is not you that they deny,
but it is Allah’s signs that the wrongdoers impugn.
34 Apostles were certainly denied before you,
yet they patiently bore being denied and tormented
until Our help came to them.
Nothing can change the words of Allah,
and there have certainly come to you
some of the accounts of the apostles.
35 And should their aversion be hard on you,
find, if you can, a tunnel into the ground,
or a ladder into sky,
that you may bring them a sign.
Had Allah wished,
He would have brought them together on guidance.
So do not be one of the ignorant.
36 Only those who listen will respond [to you].
As for the dead, Allah will resurrect them,
then they will be brought back to Him.
37 They say,