Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
while they were asleep.
20 So by the dawn it was like a harvested field.1
21 At dawn they called out to one another,
22 ‘Get off early to your field
if you have to gather [the fruits].’
23 So off they went, murmuring to one another:
24 ‘Today no needy man shall come to you in it.’
25 They set out early morning,
[considering themselves] able to grudge.
26 But when they saw it, they said,
‘We have indeed lost our way!’
27 ‘No, we are deprived!’
28 The most moderate among them said,
‘Did I not tell you,
“Why do you not glorify [Allah]?” ’
29 They said, ‘Immaculate is our Lord!
We have indeed been wrongdoers!’
30 Then they turned to one another,
blaming each other.
31 They said, ‘Woe to us!
Indeed we have been rebellious.
32 Maybe our Lord will give us a better one in it splace.
Indeed we turn earnestly to our Lord.’
33 Such was the punishment;
and the punishment of the Hereafter is surely greater,
had they known.
34 Indeed for the Godwary
there will be gardens of bliss near their Lord.
35 Shall We, then, treat those who submit [to Us]
1 Or ‘like a sand dune,’ or ‘like a gloomy night,’ or ‘like black ashes.’
