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

whom they had taken, besides Allah,
as gods, as means of nearness [to Him]?
Rather they forsook them;
and that was their lie
and what they used to fabricate.

29 When We dispatched toward you a team of jinn
listening to the Qur’ān,
when they were in its presence,
they said, ‘Be silent!’
When it was finished, they went back to their people
as warners.
30 They said, ‘O our people!
Indeed we have heard a Book
which has been sent down after Moses,
confirming what was before it.
It guides to the truth and to a straight path.
31 O our people!
Respond to Allah’s summoner
and have faith in Him.
He will forgive you some of your sins
and shelter you from a painful punishment.’
32 Those who do not respond to Allah’s summoner
cannot thwart [Allah] on the earth,
and they will not find any protectors besides Him.
They are in manifest error.
33 Do they not see that Allah,
who created the heavens and the earth
and [who] was not exhausted by their creation,

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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 25 Apr. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=746