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

by the permission of his Lord,
and if any of them swerved from Our command,
We would make him taste
the punishment of the Blaze.
13 They built for him as many temples as he wished,
and figures, basins like cisterns,
and caldrons fixed [in the ground].
‘O House of David, observe thanksgiving,
and few of My servants are grateful.’
14 And when We decreed death for him,
nothing apprised them of his death
except a worm which gnawed away at his staff.
And when he fell down
the jinn realized
that had they known the Unseen,
they would not have remained
in a humiliating torment.

15 There was certainly a sign for Sheba in their habitation:
two gardens, to the right and to the left.
‘Eat of the provision of your Lord
and give Him thanks:
a good land and an all-forgiving Lord!’
16 Butt hey disregarded [the path of Allah],
so We unleashed upon them a violent flood
and replaced their two gardens
with two gardens bearing bitter fruit, tamarisk,
and sparse lote trees.
17 We requited them with that for their ingratitude.

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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 19 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=632