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

been sent down to him, so that he should have been a warner with him?

8. Or (why is not) a treasure sent down to him, or he is made to have a garden from which he should eat? And the unjust say: You do not follow any but a man deprived of reason.

9. See what likenesses do they apply to you, so they have gone astray, therefore they shall not be able to find a way.

10. Blessed is He Who, if He please, will give you what is better than this, gardens beneath which rivers flow, and He will give you palaces.

11. But they reject the hour, and We have prepared a burning fire for him who rejects the hour.

12. When it shall come into their sight from a distant place, they shall hear its vehement raging and roaring.

13. And when they are cast into a narrow place in it, bound, they shall there call out for destruction.

14. Call not this day for one destruction, but call for destructions many.

15. Say: Is this better or the abiding garden which those