Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
Is there not a right-minded man among you?’
79 They said, ‘You certainly know
that we have no interest in your daughters,
and indeed you know what we want.’
80 He said, ‘If only I had the power to deter you,
or could take refuge in a mighty support!’
81 They said, ‘O Lot,
we are messengers of your Lord.
They will never get at you.
Set out with your family in a watch of the night;
and none of you shall turn round,
except your wife;
indeed she will be struck by what strikes them.
Indeed their tryst is the dawn.
Is not the dawn [already] near?’
82 So when Our edict came,
We made its 1 topmost part its nethermost,
and We rained on it stones
of laminar shale,
marked 2 with your Lord [for the profligate],3
never far from the wrongdoers.
84 And to Midian [We sent] Shu‘ayb, their brother.
He said, ‘O my people!
Worship Allah.
You have no other god besides Him.
Do not diminish the measure or the balance.
