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

and I am a trustworthy well-wisher for you.
69 Do you consider it odd that
there should come to you a reminder from your Lord
through a man from among yourselves,
so that he may warn you?
Remember when He made you successors
after the people of Noah,
and increased you vastly in creation.
So remember Allah’s bounties
so that you may be felicitous.’
70 They said, ‘Have you come to [tell] us
that we should worship Allah alone
and abandon what our fathers have been worshiping?
Then bring us what you threaten us with,
should you be truthful.’
71 He said, ‘There has become due against you
a punishment and wrath from your Lord.
Do you dispute with me regarding names
which you have named
— you and your fathers —
for which Allah has not sent down any authority?
So wait!
I too am waiting along with you.’
72 Then We delivered him and those who were with him
by a mercy from Us,
and We rooted out those who denied Our signs
and were not faithful.
73 And to [the people of] Thamūd, Ṣāliḥ, their brother.
He said, ‘O my people, worship Allah!
You have no other god besides Him.