M. H. Shakir, The Holy Quran; Arabic Text and English Translation; Foot-notes by M. H. Shakir (1974)

which We send down from the cloud, then the herbage of the earth of which men and cattle eat grows luxuriantly thereby; until when the earth puts on its golden raiment and it becomes garnished, and its people think that they have power over it, Our command comes to it, by night or by day, so We render it as reaped seed-produce, as though it had not been in existence yesterday; thus do We make clear the communications for a people who reflect.

25. And Allah invites to the abode of peace and guides whom He pleases into the right path.

26. For those who do good is good (reward) and more (than this); and blackness or ignominy shall not cover their faces; these are the dwellers of the garden; in it they shall abide.

27. And (as for) those who have earned evil, the punishment of an evil is the like of it, and abasement shall come upon them — they shall have none to protect them from Allah — as if their faces had been covered with slices of the dense darkness of night; these are the inmates of