Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
children and grandchildren,
and We provided you with all the good things.
What, will they believe in falsehood
while they deny the blessing of Allah?
73 They worship besides Allah
what has no power to provide them
with anything from the heavens and the earth,
nor are they capable [of doing that].
74 So do not draw comparisons for Allah:
indeed Allah knows and you do not know.
75 Allah draws a parable:
a chattel who has no power over anything,
and one whom We have provided a goodly provision
and who spends out of it
secretly and openly.
Are they equal?
All praise belongs to Allah.
But most of them do not know.
76 Allah draws [another] parable:
Two men, one of whom is dumb,
having no power over anything
and who is a liability to his master:
wherever he directs him
he does not bring any good.
Is he equal to someone who enjoins justice
and is [steady] on a straight path?
77 To Allah belongs the Unseen of the heavens
and the earth.
The matter of the Hour 1 is just
1 Or ‘The command of the Hour.’
