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

You prepared this [hell] for us.
What an evil abode!’
61 They say, ‘Our Lord!
Whoever has prepared this for us,
double his punishment in the Fire!’
62 And they say, ‘What is the matter with us
that we do not see [here] men
whom we used to count among the bad ones?
63 Did we ridicule them [unduly in the world],
or do [our] eyes miss them [here]?’
64 That is indeed a truth:
the contentions of the inmates of the Fire.
65 Say, ‘I am just a warner,
and there is no god except Allah,
the One, the All-paramount,
66 the Lord of the heavens and the earth
and whatever is between them,
the All-mighty, the All-forgiver.’
67 Say, ‘It is a great prophesy,
68 of which you are disregardful.
69 I have no knowledge of the Supernal Elite
when they contend.
70 All that is revealed to me is
that I am just a manifest warner.’
71 When your Lord said to the angels,
‘Indeed I am about to create a human being
out of clay.
72 So when I have proportioned him
and breathed into him of My spirit,
then fall down in prostration before him.’

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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 10 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=674