Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
He created you the first time,
and to Him you are being brought back.
22 You did not use to conceal yourselves
lest your hearing should bear witness against you,
or [for that matter] your sight, or your skin,
but you thought that Allah did not know
most of what you did.
23 That misjudgment that you entertained
about your Lord
ruined you.
So you became losers.’
24 Should they be patient, the Fire is their abode;
and should they seek to propitiate,
they will not be redeemed.
25 We have assigned them companions
who make to seem decorous to them
whatever is before them 1
and whatever is behind them,2
and the word became due against them,3
as it did against the nations that passed away
before them
of jinn and humans.
They were indeed losers.
26 The faithless say,
‘Do not listen to this Qur’ān
and hoot it down
so that you may prevail [over the Apostle].’
