Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
52 The day He will say,
‘Call those whom you maintained to be My partners,’
they will call them,
but they will not respond to them,
for We shall place an abyss between them.
53 The guilty will sight the Fire
and know that they will fall into it,
for they will find no means to circumvent it.
54 Certainly We have made this Qur’ān interspersed
with every kind of parable for mankind.
But man is the most disputatious of creatures.
55 People do not refuse to have faith
when guidance comes to them
and to plead to their Lord for forgiveness,
without being overtaken
by the precedent of the ancients,
or confronting the punishment.1
56 We do not send the apostles
except as bearers of good news and as warners,
but those who are faithless dispute
fallaciously
to refute thereby the truth,
having taken My signs
and what they are warned of
in derision.
57 Who is a greater wrongdoer
than he who is reminded
of the signs of his Lord,
whereat he disregards them
1 Or, ‘being overtaken by diverse punishments.’
