S:  A Book revealed to you—­ so let there be no straitness in your breast on account of it—­ that you may warn thereby, and a reminder close to the believers.

007.003 Y:  Follow (O men!) the revelation given unto you from your Lord, and follow not, as friends or protectors, other than Him.  Little it is ye remember of admonition.

P:  (Saying):  Follow that which is sent down unto you from your Lord, and follow no protecting friends beside Him.  Little do ye recollect!

S:  Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord and do not follow guardians besides Him, how little do you mind.

007.004 Y:  How many towns have We destroyed (for their sins)?  Our punishment took them on a sudden by night or while they slept for their afternoon rest.

P:  How many a township have We destroyed!  As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them.

S:  And how many a town that We destroyed, so Our punishment came to it by night or while they slept at midday.

007.005 Y:  When (thus) Our punishment took them, no cry did they utter but this:  “Indeed we did wrong.”

P:  No plea had they, when Our terror came unto them, save that they said:  Lo!  We were wrong-doers.

S:  Yet their cry, when Our punishment came to them, was nothing but that they said:  Surely we were unjust.

007.006 Y:  Then shall we question those to whom Our message was sent and those by whom We sent it.

P:  Then verily We shall question those unto whom (Our message) hath been sent, and verily We shall question the messengers.

S:  Most certainly then We will question those to whom (the messengers) were sent, and most certainly We will also question the messengers;

007.007 Y:  And verily, We shall recount their whole story with knowledge, for We were never absent (at any time or place).

P:  Then verily We shall narrate unto them (the event) with knowledge, for We were not absent (when it came to pass).

S:  Then most certainly We will relate to them with knowledge, and We were not absent.

007.008 Y:  The balance that day will be true (to nicety):  those whose scale (of good) will be heavy, will prosper: 

P:  The weighing on that day is the true (weighing).  As for those whose scale is heavy, they are the successful.

S:  And the measuring out on that day will be just; then as for him whose measure (of good deeds) is heavy, those are they who shall be successful;

007.009 Y:  Those whose scale will be light, will be their souls in perdition, for that they wrongfully treated Our signs.

P:  And as for those whose scale is light:  those are they who lose their souls because they used to wrong Our revelations.

S:  And as for him whose measure (of good deeds) is light those are they who have made their souls suffer loss because they disbelieved in Our communications.