Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
Do you attribute to Allah what you do not know?
69 Say, ‘Indeed those who fabricate
lies against Allah
will not be felicitous.’
70 An enjoyment in this world;
then to Us shall be their return,
then We shall make them taste the severe punishment
because of what they used to defy.
71 Relate to them the account of Noah
when he said to his people,
‘O my people!
If my stay [among you] be hard on you
and [also] my reminding you of Allah’s signs,
[for my part] I have put my trust in Allah.
So conspire together, along with your partners,1
leaving nothing vague in your plan,
then carry it out against me
without giving me any respite.
72 If you turn your back [on me],
I do not ask any reward from you;
my reward lies only with Allah
and I have been commanded
to be of those who submit [to Allah].’
73 But they impugned him.
So We delivered him and those who were with him
in the ark
and We made them the successors,2
1 That is, the false deities whom you worship besides Allah.
2 That is, of those who perished in the Flood, and heirs to all that belonged to them.
