Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
7 He raised the sky and setup the balance,
8 declaring, ‘Do not infringe the balance!
9 Maintain the weights with justice,
and do not shorten the balance!’
10 And the earth, He laid it out for mankind.
11 In it are fruits and date-palms withs heaths,
12 grain with husk, and fragrant herbs.
13 So which of your Lord’s bounties
will you both 1 deny?
14 He created man
out of dry clay,2 like the potter’s,
15 and created the jinn out of a flame of a fire.
16 So which of your Lord’s bounties
will you both deny?
17 Lord of the two easts,
and Lord of the two wests!3
18 So which of your Lord’s bounties
will you both deny?
19 He merged the two seas,4 meeting each other.
20 There is a barrier between them
which they do not overstep.
21 So which of your Lord’s bounties
will you both deny?
22 From them emerge the pearl and the coral.
23 So which of your Lord’s bounties
will you both deny?
