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

186 You are just a human being like us,
and we indeed consider you to be a liar.
187 Then make a fragment fall upon us from the sky,
should you be truthful.’
188 He said, ‘My Lord knows best what you are doing.’
189 So they impugned him,
and then they were overtaken
by the punishment of the day of the overshadowing cloud.
It was indeed the punishment of a tremendous day.
190 There is indeed a sign in that;
but most of them do not have faith.
191 Indeed your Lord is the All-mighty, the All-merciful.

192 This is indeed [a Book] sent down
by the Lord of all the worlds,
193 brought down by the Trustworthy Spirit
194 upon your heart
(so that you may be one of the warners),
195 in a clear Arabic language.
196 It is indeed [foretold] in the scriptures of the ancients.
197 Is it not a sign for them
that the learned of the Children of Israel recognize it?
198 Had We sent it down upon some non-Arab
199 and had he recited it to them,
they would not have believed in it.
200 This is how We let it pass
through the hearts of the guilty:
201 they do not believe in it
until they sight the painful punishment.
202 It will overtake them suddenly

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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 07 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=555