Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
and accused one another about it
— and Allah was to expose
whatever you were concealing —
We said, ‘Strike him with a piece of it:’
thus does Allah revive the dead,
and He shows you His signs
so that you may apply reason.
74 Then your hearts hardened after that;
so they are like stones, or even harder.
For indeed there are some stones
from which streams gush forth,
and indeed there are some of them that split,
and water issues from them,
and indeed there are some of them that fall
for the fear of Allah.
And Allah is not oblivious of what you do.
75 Are you then eager
that they should believe you,1
though a part of them
would hear the word of Allah
and then they would distort it 2
after they had understood it,
and they knew [what they were doing]?
76 When they meet the faithful,
they say, ‘We believe,’
and when they are alone with one another,
