Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
10 He set in it firm mountains [rising] above it,
and blessed it and ordained therein
its [various] means of sustenance
in four days,
alike for all the seekers [of the means of sustenance].
11 Then He turned to the heaven,
and it was smoke,
and He said to it and to the earth,
‘Come! Willingly or unwillingly!’
They said, ‘We come heartily.’
12 Then He set them up as seven heavens in two days,
and revealed in each heaven its ordinance.1
We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps,
and guarded them.2
That is the ordaining of the All-mighty, the All-knowing.
13 But if they turn away,
say, ‘I warn you of a thunderbolt,
like the thunderbolt of ‘Ād and Thamūd.’
14 When the apostles came to them,
before them and in their own time,3
saying, ‘Worship no one except Allah!’
They said, ‘Had our Lord wished,
He would certainly have sent down angels [to us].
We indeed disbelieve in what you have been sent with.’
15 As for [the people of] ‘Ād,
they acted arrogantly in the earth unduly,
