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

and disobeyed His apostles,
and followed the dictates of every obdurate tyrant.
60Sotheywerepursuedbyacurseinthisworld
and on the Day of Resurrection.
Look! Indeed ‘Ād defied their Lord.
Look! Away with ‘Ād, the people of Hud!

61 And to Thamūd [We sent] Ṣāliḥ, their brother.
He said, ‘O my people!
Worship Allah.
You have no other god besides Him.
He brought you forth from the earth
and made it your habitation.
So plead with Him for forgiveness,
then turn to Him penitently.
My Lord is indeed nearmost [and] responsive.’
62 They said, ‘O Ṣāliḥ!
You were a source of hope to us
before this.
Do you forbid us to worship
what our fathers have been worshiping?
Indeed we have grave doubts concerning
that to which you invite us.’
63 He said, ‘O my people! Tell me,
should I stand on a manifest proof from my Lord,
and He has granted me His own mercy,
who will protect me from Allah
should I disobey Him?
For then you will increase me in nothing but loss.
64 O my people!

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Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation, Islamic College for Advance Studies Press (ICAS), London (Distributed by The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur’ān, Qom, Iran), Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 28 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=343