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

worthier to be followed,
or he who is not guided unless he is shown the way?
What is the matter with you?
How do you judge?’
36 Most of them just follow conjecture;
indeed conjecture is no substitute for the truth.
Indeed Allah knows best what they do.
37 This Qur’ān could not have been fabricated
by anyone besides Allah;
rather it is a confirmation of what was [revealed]
before it,
and an elaboration of the Book,
there is no doubt in it,
from the Lord of all the worlds.
38 Do they say, ‘He has fabricated it?’
Say, ‘Then bring a sūrah like it,
and invoke whomever you can,
besides Allah,
should you be truthful.’
39 Rather, they deny
that whose knowledge they do not comprehend,
and whose explanation has not yet come to them.
Those who were before them denied likewise.
So observe how was the fate of the wrongdoers!
40 Some of them believe in it,
and some of them do not believe in it,
and your Lord best knows the agents of corruption.
41 If they deny you,
say, ‘My deeds belong to me
and your deeds belong to you: