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

and We are indeed able to take it away.
19 Then with it We produced for you
gardens of date palms and vines.
There are abundant fruits in them for you,
and you eat from them.
20 And a tree that grows on Mount Sinai
which produces oil and a seasoning
for those who eat.
21 There is indeed a moral for you in the cattle:
We give you to drink of that which is in their bellies,
and you have many uses in them,
and you eat some of them,
22 and you are carried on them and on ships.

23 Certainly We sent Noah to his people,
and he said, ‘O my people! Worship Allah!
You have no other god besides Him.
Will you not then be wary [of Him]?’
24 But the elite of the faithless from among his people said,
‘This is just a human being like you,
who seeks to dominate you.
Had Allah wished,
He would have sent down angels.
We never heard of such a thing
among our forefathers.
25 He is just a man possessed by madness.
So bear with him for a while.’
26 He said, ‘My Lord!
Help me, as they impugn me.’
27 So We revealed to him:

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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 15 Jan. 2025: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=509