Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
who has provided you with what you know,
133 and aided you with sons and with cattle,
134 gardens and springs.
135 Indeed I fear for you
the punishment of a tremendous day.’
136 They said, ‘It is the same to us
whether you advise us or not.
137 These are nothing but the traditions of the ancients,1
138 and we will not be punished.’
139 So they impugned him,
whereupon We destroyed them.
There is indeed a sign in that;
but most of them do not have faith.
140 Indeed your Lord is the All-mighty, the All-merciful.
141 [The people of] Thamūd impugned the apostles
142 when Ṣāliḥ, their brother, said to them,
‘Will you not be wary [of Allah]?
143 Indeed I am a trusted apostle [sent] to you.
144 So be wary of Allah and obey me.
145 I do not ask you any reward for it;
my reward lies only with the Lord of all the worlds.
146 Will you be left secure in that which is here
147 — amid gardens and springs,
148 farms and date palms with dainty spathes?
149 And you hew houses out of the mountains skillfully.2
150 So be wary of Allah and obey me,
1 Or, ‘This is nothing but a fabrication of the ancients,’ according to an alternate reading (khaluq, instead of khuluq).
1 Or, ‘exultantly.’
