007.095 Y:  Then We changed their suffering into prosperity, until they grew and multiplied, and began to say:  “Our fathers (too) were touched by suffering and affluence” ...  Behold!  We called them to account of a sudden, while they realised not (their peril).

P:  Then changed We the evil plight for good till they grew affluent and said:  Tribulation and distress did touch our fathers.  Then We seized them unawares, when they perceived not.

S:  Then We gave them good in the place of evil until they became many and said:  Distress and happiness did indeed befall our fathers.  Then We took them by surprise while they did not perceive.

007.096 Y:  If the people of the towns had but believed and feared Allah, We should indeed have opened out to them (All kinds of) blessings from heaven and earth; but they rejected (the truth), and We brought them to book for their misdeeds.

P:  And if the people of the townships had believed and kept from evil, surely We should have opened for them blessings from the sky and from the earth.  But (unto every messenger) they gave the lie, and so We seized them on account of what they used to earn.

S:  And if the people of the towns had believed and guarded (against evil) We would certainly have opened up for them blessings from the heaven and the earth, but they rejected, so We overtook them for what they had earned.

007.097 Y:  Did the people of the towns feel secure against the coming of Our wrath by night while they were asleep?

P:  Are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them as a night-raid while they sleep?

S:  What! do the people of the towns then feel secure from Our punishment coming to them by night while they sleep?

007.098 Y:  Or else did they feel secure against its coming in broad daylight while they played about (care-free)?

P:  Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play?

S:  What! do the people of the towns feel secure from Our punishment coming to them in the morning while they play?

007.099 Y:  Did they then feel secure against the plan of Allah?- but no one can feel secure from the Plan of Allah, except those (doomed) to ruin!

P:  Are they then secure from Allah’s scheme?  None deemeth himself secure from Allah’s scheme save folk that perish.

S:  What! do they then feel secure from Allah’s plan?  But none feels secure from Allah’s plan except the people who shall perish.

007.100 Y:  To those who inherit the earth in succession to its (previous) possessors, is it not a guiding, (lesson) that, if We so willed, We could punish them (too) for their sins, and seal up their hearts so that they could not hear?

P:  Is it not an indication to those who inherit the land after its people (who thus reaped the consequence of evil-doing) that, if We will, We can smite them for their sins and print upon their hearts so that they hear not?