Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)
teacheth him. The speech of him at whom they falsely hint is outlandish, and this is clear Arabic speech.1
104. Lo! those who disbelieve the revelations of Allah, Allah guideth them not and theirs will be a painful doom.
105. Only they invent falsehood who believe not Allah’s revelations, and (only) they are the liars.
106. Whoso disbelieveth in Allah after his belief — save him who is forced thereto and whose heart is still content with the Faith — but whoso findeth ease in disbelief: On them is wrath from Allah. Theirs will be an awful doom.
107. That is because they have chosen the life of the world rather than the Hereafter, and because Allah guideth not the disbelieving folk.
108. Such are they whose hearts and ears and eyes Allah hath sealed. And such are the heedless.
109. Assuredly in the Hereafter they are the losers.
110. Then lo! thy Lord — for those who became fugitives after they had been persecuted, and then fought and were stedfast — lo! thy Lord afterward is (for them) indeed Forgiving, Merciful,
111. On the Day when every soul will come pleading for itself, and every soul will be repaid what it did, and they will not be wronged.
112. Allah coineth a similitude: a township that dwelt secure and well content, its provision coming to it in abundr ance from every side, but it disbelieved in Allah’s favours, so Allah made it experience the garb of dearth and fear because of what they used to do.
113. And verily there had come unto them a messenger
1 Among the various attempts of the idolaters to deride the Koran was the charge that a Christian slave among the earliest converts taught it to the Prophet. The same slave suffered cruel persecution for his belief in the divine inspiration of the Koran.
