Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
67 Does not man remember
that We created him before
when he was nothing?
68 By your Lord, We will surely gather them
and the devils;
then We will surely bring them up around hell
[scrambling] on their knees.1
69 Then from every group We shall draw
whichever of them
was more defiant to the All-beneficent.
70 Then surely We will know best
those who deserve most to enter it.
71 There is none of you but will come to it:2
a [matter that is a] decided certainty with your Lord.
72 Then We will deliver those who are Godwary,
and leave the wrongdoers in it, fallen on their knees.
73 When Our manifest signs are recited to them,
the faithless say to the faithful,
‘Which of the two sides is superior in station 3
and better with respect to company?’4
74 How many a generation We have destroyed before them,
who were superior in furnishings and appearance!
75 Say, ‘Whoever abides in error,
the All-beneficent shall prolong his respite
until they sight what they have been promised:
either punishment, or the Hour.’
1 Or ‘in groups.’
2 That is, they will approach it, without entering it.
3 Or ‘superior with respect to dwelling.’
4 Or ‘better with respect to gatherings.’
