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

7 The faithless say,
‘Shall we show you a man who will inform you
[that] when you have been totally rent to pieces
you will indeed have a new creation?
8 Has he fabricated a lie against Allah,
or is there a madness in him?’
Rather those who do not believe in the Hereafter
languish in punishment and extreme error.
9 Have they not regarded that which is before them
and that which is behind them
of the sky and the earth?
If We like, We can make the earth swallow them,
or let fall on them a fragment from the sky.
There is indeed a sign in that
for every penitent servant.

10 Certainly We gave David a grace from Us:
‘O mountains and birds, chime in with him!’1
And We made iron soft for him,
11 saying, ‘Make easy coats of mail,
and keep the measure in arranging [the links],
and act righteously.
Indeed I see best what you do.’
12 And for Solomon [We subjected] the wind:
its morning course was a month’s journey
and its evening course was a month’s journey.
We made a fount of [molten] copper flow for him,
and [We placed at his service] some of the jinn
who would work for him

1 Cf. 38:17-19.

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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 28 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=631