Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
37 Do they possess the treasuries of your Lord?
Or are they the controllers [of their dispensation]?
38 Do they have a ladder [leading up to heaven]
whereby they eavesdrop?1
If so let their eavesdropper produce a manifest authority.
39 Does He have daughters while you have sons?2
40 Do you ask them for a reward,
so that they are weighed down with debt?
41 Do they have [access to] the Unseen,
which they write down?
42 Do they seek to outmaneuver [Allah]?
But it is the faithless
who are the outmaneuvered ones!
43 Do they have any god other than Allah?
Clear is Allah
of any partners that they may ascribe [to Him]!
44 Were they to see
a fragment falling from the sky, they would say,
‘A cumulous cloud.’
45 So leave them until they encounter their day
on which they will be thunderstruck;
46 the day when their guile will not avail them
in any way,
nor will they be helped.
47 Indeed for those who do wrong,
there is a punishment besides that,
but most of them do not know.
