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

or while they were taking a midday nap.
5 Then their cry,
when Our punishment overtook them,
was only that they said,
‘We have indeed been wrongdoers!’
6 We will surely question those
to whom the apostles were sent,
and We will surely question the apostles.
7 Then We will surely recount to them with knowledge,
for We had not been absent.
8 The weighing [of deeds] on that Day is a truth.
As for those whose deeds weigh heavy in the scales
— it is they who are the felicitous.
9 As for those whose deeds weigh light in the scales,
— it is they who have ruined their souls,
because they used to wrong Our signs.
10 Certainly We have established you on the earth,
and made in it [various] means of livelihood for you.
Little do you thank.
11 Certainly We created you, then We formed you,
then We said to the angels,
‘Prostrate before Adam.’
So they [all] prostrated, but not Iblis:
he was not among those who prostrated.
12 Said He, ‘What prevented you from prostrating,
when I commanded you?’
‘I am better than him,’ he said.
‘You created me from fire
and You created him from clay.’
13 ‘Get down from it!’ He said.

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Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation, Islamic College for Advance Studies Press (ICAS), London (Distributed by The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur’ān, Qom, Iran), Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 26 Apr. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=237