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

Look! When they draw their cloaks over their heads,¹
He knows whatever they keep secret
and whatever they disclose.
Indeed He knows best whatever is in the breasts.

6 There is no animal on the earth,
but that its sustenance lies with Allah,
and He knows its [enduring] abode
and its temporary place of lodging.
Everything is in a manifest Book.
7 It is He who created the heavens
and the earth
in six days
— and His Throne was [then] upon the waters —
that He may test you [to see]
which of you is best in conduct.
Yet if you say,
‘You will indeed be raised
up after death,’
the faithless will surely say,
‘This is nothing but plain magic.’
8 And if We defer their punishment
until a certain time,
they will surely say, ‘What holds it back?’
Look! On the day it overtakes them
it shall not be turned away from them,
and they will be besieged
by what they used to deride.
9 If We let man taste a mercy from Us,