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

20. Nor the darkness and the light,

21. Nor the shade and the heat,

22. Neither are the living and the dead alike. Surely Allah makes whom He pleases hear, and you cannot make those hear who are in the graves.

23. You are naught but a warner.

24. Surely We have sent you with the truth as a bearer of good news and a warner; and there is not a people but a warner has gone among them.

25. And if they call you a liar, so did those before them indeed call (their apostles) liars; their apostles had come to them with clear arguments, and with scriptures, and with the illuminating book.

26. Then did I punish those who disbelieved, so how was the manifestation of My disapproval?

27. Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the cloud, then We bring forth therewith fruits of various colours; and in the mountains are streaks, white and red, of various hues and (others) intensely black?

28. And of men and beasts and cattle are various species of