Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
42 Say, ‘Who can guard you, day and night,
from [the punishment of] the All-beneficent?’
Rather they are disregardful of their Lord’s remembrance.
43 Do they have gods besides Us to defend them?
Neither can they help themselves,
nor can they provide them with an escort against Us.
44 Rather We have provided for them and their fathers
until they lived on for long years.
Do they not see how We visit the land
diminishing it at its edges?1
Are they the ones who will prevail?
45 Say, ‘I indeed warn you by the means of revelation.’
But the deaf do not hear the call
when they are warned.
46 Should a whiff of your Lord’s punishment touch them,
they will surely say, ‘Woe to us!
We have indeed been wrongdoers!’
47 We shall setup the scales of justice
on the Day of Resurrection,
and no soul will be wronged in the least.
Even if it be the weight of a mustard seed
We shall produce it
and We suffice as reckoners.
48 Certainly We gave Moses and Aaron
the Criterion,
a light and reminder for the Godwary.
49 Those who fear their Lord in secret,
and who are apprehensive of the Hour.
1 Cf. 13:41.
