Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
67 being disdainful of it,1
talking nonsense in your nightly sessions.’
68 Have they not contemplated the discourse,2
or has anything come to them [in it]
that did not come to their forefathers?
69 Is it that they do not recognize their apostle,3
and so they deny him?4
70 Do they say, ‘There is madness in him’?
Rather he has brought them the truth,
and most of them are averse to the truth.
71 Had the Truth followed their desires,
the heavens and the earth would have surely fallen apart
[along] with those who are in them.
Rather We have brought them their reminder,
but they are disregardful of their reminder.
72 Do you ask a recompense from them?
Yet your Lord’s recompense is better,
and He is the best of providers.
73 Indeed you invite them
to a straight path,
74 and indeed those who do not believe
in the Hereafter
surely deviate from the path.
75 Should We have mercy upon them
and remove their distress from them,
they would surely persist,
