Hashim Amir-Ali, The Message of the Qur’an: Presented in Perspective (1974)

64 The pseudo-faithful (feign to) fear that a Sura will proclaim what lieth in their hearts Say thou, “Keep on feigning! Allah will, indeed, reveal all ye dread.”

65 If thou wert to question them, they would say : “We were only jesting ’mong ourselves!” Ask thou “What were ye jesting at? About Allah? His Revelations? His Messenger?

66 “Make ye no excuses! Ye have, indeed, blasphemed despite your (professed) faith!” (Even) if We some o’erlook, others We will surely punish — those who are actual culprits.

67 These dissemblers — be they men or women — are the products, one of the other: evil they encourage, and good they hinder; from action they refrain. They have forgotten Allah — so Allah has forgotten them. Verily, these dissemblers are untrustworthy.

68 Allah promiseth these hypocrites —both men and women — and these infidels, the fire of hell wherein to live for aye each according to his reckoning. The curse of Allah lies on them and a lasting punishment.

69 Like those who lived before you — they were more powerful than you, they had more goods and progeny; availed they of their opportunities, and ye avail of yours, exactly like your predecessors, ye prattle even as they prattled! But barren proved their deeds both then and ever after; they were the real losers!