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

20 Those whom they invoke besides Allah
do not create anything
and are themselves created.
21 They are dead, not living,
and are not aware when they will be resurrected.
22 Your God is the One God.
Those who do not believe in the Hereafter,
their hearts are amiss,¹
and they are arrogant.
23 Undoubtedly, Allah knows whatever they hide
and whatever they disclose.
Indeed He does not like the arrogant.
24 When they are told,
‘What is it that your Lord has sent down?’
They say, ‘Myths of the ancients,’
25 that they may bear their entire burdens
on the Day of Resurrection,
along with some of the burdens of those
whom they lead astray without any knowledge.
Look! Evil is what they bear!
26 Those who were before them [had also] schemed.
Then Allah razed their edifice from the foundations
and the roof collapsed upon them from above
and the punishment overtook them
whence they were not aware.
27 Then He will disgrace them on the Day of Resurrection,
and say, ‘Where are My partners
for whose sake you used to defy [Allah]?’
Those who were given knowledge will say,