Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
‘Are the blind one and the seer equal?
Or are the darkness and the light equal?’
Have they set up for Allah partners
who have created like His creation,
so that the creations seemed confusable to them?
Say, ‘Allah is the creator of all things,
and He is the One, the All-paramount.’
17 He sends down water from the sky
whereat the valleys are flooded
to [the extent of] their capacity,
and the flood carries along a swelling scum.
And from what they smelt in the fire
for the purpose of [making] ornaments or wares,
[there arises] a similar scum.
That is how Allah compares the truth
and falsehood.
As for the scum, it leaves as dross,
and that which profits the people
remains in the earth.
That is how Allah draws comparisons.
18 For those who answer [the summons of] their Lord
there shall be the best [of rewards].
But those who do not answer Him,
even if they possessed all that is on the earth
and as much of it besides,
they would surely offer it to redeem themselves
with it.1
For such there shall be an adverse reckoning,
and their refuge shall be hell,
