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

so he said to his companion,
as he conversed with him:
‘I have more wealth than you,
and am stronger with respect to numbers.’1
35 He entered his garden
while he wronged himself.
He said,
‘I do not think that this will ever perish,
36 and I do not think that the Hour will ever set in.
And even if I am returned to my Lord
I will surely find a resort better than this.’
37 His companion said to him,
as he conversed with him:
‘Do you disbelieve in Him who created you
from dust,
then from a drop of [seminal] fluid,
then fashioned you as a man?
38 But I [say], “He is Allah, my Lord,”
and I do not ascribe any partner to my Lord.
Why did you not say, when you entered your garden,
“[This is] as Allah has wished!
There is no power except by Allah!”
If you see that I have lesser wealth than you
and children,
40 maybe my Lord will give me
[something] better than your garden,
and He will unleash upon it bolts
from the sky,

1 That is, with respect to the number of servants and attendants and the size of family and clan.

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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 26 Apr. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=444