Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)

Such are rightful owners of the Garden; they will abide therein.

28. And those who earn ill deeds, (for them) requital of each ill deed by the like thereof; and ignominy overtaketh them — They have no protector from Allah — as if their faces had been covered with a cloak of darkest night. Such are rightful owners of the Fire; they will abide therein

29. On the day when We gather them all together, then We say unto those who ascribed partners (unto Us): Stand back, ye and your (pretended) partners (of Allah)! And We separate them, the one from the other, and their (pretended) partners say: It was not us ye worshipped.

30. Allah sufficeth as a witness between us and you, that we were unaware of your worship.

31. There doth every soul experience that which it did aforetime, and they are returned unto Allah, their rightful Lord, and that which they used to invent hath failed them.

32. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): Who provideth for you from the sky and the earth, or Who owneth hearing and sight; and Who bringeth forth the living from the dead and bringeth forth the dead from the living; and Who directeth the course? They will say: Allah. Then say: Will ye not then keep your duty (unto Him)?

33. Such then is Allah, your rightful Lord. After the Truth what is there saving error? How then are ye turned away!

34. Thus is the Word of thy Lord justified concerning those who do wrong: that they believe not.

35. Say: Is there of your partners (whom ye ascribe unto Allah) one that produceth Creation and then reproduced! it? Say: Allah produceth Creation, then reproduceth it. How then, are ye misled!

36. Say: Is there of your partners (whom ye ascribe unto Allah) one that leadeth to the Truth? Say: Allah leadeth to

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Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 19 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/marmaduke-pickthall/1930?page=219