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

67 The faithless say,
‘What! When we and our fathers have become dust
shall we indeed be raised [from the dead]?
68 Certainly we and our fathers were promised this
before.
[But] these are just myths of the ancients.’
69 Say, ‘Travel over the land
and then observe
how was the fate of the guilty.’
70 Do not grieve for them,
and do not be upset by their guile.
71 They say, ‘When will this promise be fulfilled,
should you be truthful?’
72 Say, ‘Perhaps right behind you there is
some of what you seek to hasten.’
73 Indeed your Lord is gracious to mankind,
but most of them do not give thanks.
74 Your Lord indeed knows
whatever their breasts conceal,
and whatever they disclose.
75 There is no invisible thing in the heaven
and the earth
but it is in a manifest Book.¹
76 Indeed this Qur’ān recounts
to the Children of Israel
most of what they differ about,
77 and it is indeed a guidance and mercy
for the faithful.
78 Indeed your Lord will decide between them