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

and Allah is the best of devisers.
31 When Our signs are recited to them,
they say, ‘We have heard already.
If we want, we [too] can say like this.
These are nothing but myths of the ancients.’
32 And when they said,
‘O Allah,
if this be the truth from You,
rain down upon us stones from the sky,
or bring us a painful punishment.’
33 But Allah will not punish them
while you are in their midst,
nor will Allah punish them
while they plead for forgiveness.
34 What [excuse] have they
that Allah should not punish them,
when they bar [the faithful] from the Holy Mosque,
and they are not its custodians?
Its custodians are only the Godwary,
but most of them do not know.
35 Their prayer at the House is nothing
but whistling and clapping.
So taste the punishment
because of what you used to defy.
36 Indeed the faithless spend their wealth
to bar from the way of Allah.
Soon they will have spent it,
then it will be a cause of regret to them,
then they will be overcome,
and the faithless will be gathered toward Hell,