Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
but he clung to the earth
and followed his [base] desires.
So his parable is that of a dog:
if you make for it, it lolls out its tongue,
and if you let it alone, it lolls out its tongue.
Such is the parable of the people who
deny Our signs.
So recount these narratives,
so that they may reflect.
177 Evil is the parable of the people who deny Our signs
and wrong themselves.
178 Whomever Allah guides is rightly guided,
and whomever He leads astray
— it is they who are the losers.
179 Certainly We have created for hell
many of the jinn and humans:
they have hearts with which they do not understand,
they have eyes with which they do not see,
they have ears with which they do not hear.
They are like cattle;
rather they are more astray.
It is they who are the heedless.1
180 To Allah belong the Best Names,
so supplicate Him by them,
and abandon those who commit sacrilege
in His names.
Soon they shall be requited for what they used to do.
181 Among those We have created are a nation
who guide by the truth
