Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)
SÛRAH L
Takes its name from the letter of the Arabic alphabet which stands alone at the beginning of the first verse.
It belongs to the middle group of Meccan Sûrahs.
Qâf
1. Qâf. By the glorious Qur’ân,
2. Nay, but they marvel that a warner of their own hath come unto them; and the disbelievers say: This is a strange thing:
3. When we are dead and have become dust (shall we be brought back again)? That would be a far return!
4. We know that which the earth taketh of them 1, and with Us is a recording Book.
5. Nay, but they have denied the truth when it came unto them, therefor they are now in troubled case.
6. Have they not then observed the sky above them, how We have constructed it and beautified it, and how there are no rifts therein?
7. And the earth have We spread out, and have flung firm hills therein, and have caused of every lovely kind to grow thereon,
8. A vision and a reminder for every penitent slave.
9. And We send down from the sky blessed water whereby We give growth unto gardens and the grain of crops,
1 i.e. those of them who die and are buried in the earth.
