Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
They shall be the inmates of the Fire,
and they shall remain in it [forever].
258 Have you not regarded him 1
who argued with Abraham
about his Lord,
because Allah had given him kingdom?
When Abraham said,
‘My Lord is He who gives life and brings death,’
he replied, ‘I [too] give life and bring death.’
Abraham said,
‘Indeed Allah brings the sun from the east;
now you bring it from the west.’
Thereat the faithless one was dumbfounded.
And Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.
259 Or him 2 who came upon a township
as it lay fallen on its trellises.
He said, ‘How will Allah revive this after its death?!’
So Allah made him die for a hundred years,
then He resurrected him.
He said, ‘How long have you remained?’
Said he, ‘I have remained a day or part of a day.’
He said, ‘Rather you have remained a hundred years.
Now look at your food and drink
which have not rotted!
Then look at your ass!
[This was done] that We may make you a sign
for mankind.
1 That is, Nimrod.
2 That is, Ezra (‘Uzayr).
