Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
they would be better guided than any of the nations.
But when a warner came to them
it only increased them in aversion,
43 acting arrogantly in the land
and devising evil schemes;
and evil schemes beset only their authors.
So do they await
anything except the precedent of the ancients?
Yet you will never find any change in Allah’s precedent,
and you will never find any revision in Allah’s precedent.
44 Have they not traveled over the land
so that they may observe
how was the fate of those who were before them?
They were more powerful than them,
and Allah is not to be thwarted by anything
in the heavens or on the earth.
Indeed He is all-knowing, all-powerful.
45 Were Allah to take mankind to task
because of what they have earned,
He would not leave any living being on its back.1
But He respites them until a specified time,
and when their time comes,
Allah indeed sees best His servants.
36. Sūrat Yā Sīn 2
the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.
1 That is, on the surface of the earth.
2 “Yā Sīn” (mentioned in verse 1) is one of the names of the Prophet (ṣ).
