Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
which you used to deny.’
43 When Our manifest signs are recited to them,
they say,
‘This is just a man who desires to keep you
from what your fathers used to worship.’
And they say, ‘This is nothing but a fabricated lie.’
The faithless say of the truth when it comes to them:
‘This is nothing but plain magic.’
44 We did not give them 1 any scriptures
that they might have studied,
nor did We send them any warner before you.2
45 Those who were before them denied [the apostles],
and these have not received one-tenth 3
of what We had given them. But they denied My apostles,
so how was My rebuttal!4
46 Say, ‘I give you just a single advice:
that you rise up for Allah’s sake,
in twos, or individually,
and then reflect:
there is no madness in your companion:
he is just a warner to you
before [the befalling of] a severe punishment.’
47 Say, ‘Whatever reward I may have asked you
is for your own good.
My [true] reward lies only with Allah,
