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

send down upon you a punishment? Then shal"l1 you know how was My warning.

18. And certainly those before them rejected (the truth), then how was My disapproval.

19. Have they not seen the birds above them expanding (their wings) and contracting (them)? What is it that withholds them save the Beneficent God? Surely He sees everything.

20. Or who is it that will be a host for you to assist you besides the Beneficent God? The unbelievers are only in deception.

21. Or who is it that will give you sustenance if He should withhold His sustenance? Nay! they persist in disdain and aversion.

22. What! is he who goes prone upon his face better guided or he who walks upright upon a straight path?

23. Say: He it is Who brought you into being and made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts: little is it that you give thanks.

24. Say: He it is Who multiplied you in the earth and to Him you shall be gathered.