Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)
68. Feel ye then secure that He will not cause a slope of the land to engulf you, or send a sand-storm upon you, and then ye will find that ye have no protector?
69. Or feel ye secure that He will not return you to that (plight) a second time, and send against you a hurricane of wind and drown you for your thanklessness, and then ye will not find therein that ye have any avenger against Us?
70. Verily We have honoured the children of Adam. We carry them on the land and the sea, and have made provision of good things for them, and have preferred them above many of those whom We created with a marked preferment.
71. On the day when We shall summon all men with their record, whoso is given his book in his right hand — such will read their book and they will not be wronged a shred.
72. Whoso is blind here will be blind in the Hereafter, and yet further from the road.
73. And they indeed strove hard to beguile thee (Muhammad) away from that wherewith We have inspired thee, that thou shouldst invent other than it against Us; and then would they have accepted thee as a friend.1
74. And if We had not made thee wholly firm thou mightest almost have inclined unto them a little.
75. Then had We made thee taste a double (punishment) of living and a double (punishment) of dying, then hadst thou found no helper against Us.
76. And they indeed wished to scare thee from the land that they might drive thee forth from thence, and then they would have stayed (there) but a little after thee.2
77. (Such was Our) method in the case of those whom
1 The idolaters more than once offered to compromise with the Prophet.
2 If, as the Jalâleyn declare, vv. 76–82 were revealed at Al-Madînah the reference here is to the plotting of the Jews and Hypocrites.
