S:  And we have come to you with the truth, and we are most surely truthful.

015.065 Y:  “Then travel by night with thy household, when a portion of the night (yet remains), and do thou bring up the rear:  let no one amongst you look back, but pass on whither ye are ordered.”

P:  So travel with thy household in a portion of the night, and follow thou their backs.  Let none of you turn round, but go whither ye are commanded.

S:  Therefore go forth with your followers in a part of the night and yourself follow their rear, and let not any one of you turn round, and go forth whither you are commanded.

015.066 Y:  And We made known this decree to him, that the last remnants of those (sinners) should be cut off by the morning.

P:  And We made plain the case to him, that the root of them (who did wrong) was to be cut at early morn.

S:  And We revealed to him this decree, that the roots of these shall be cut off in the morning.

015.067 Y:  The inhabitants of the city came in (mad) joy (at news of the young men).

P:  And the people of the city came, rejoicing at the news (of new arrivals).

S:  And the people of the town came rejoicing.

015.068 Y:  Lut said:  “These are my guests:  disgrace me not:” 

P:  He said:  Lo! they are my guests.  Affront me not!

S:  He said:  Surely these are my guests, therefore do not disgrace me,

015.069 Y:  “But fear Allah, and shame me not.”

P:  And keep your duty to Allah, and shame me not!

S:  And guard against (the punishment of) Allah and do not put me to shame.

015.070 Y:  They said:  “Did we not forbid thee (to speak) for all and sundry?”

P:  They said; Have we not forbidden you from (entertaining) anyone?

S:  They said:  Have we not forbidden you from (other) people?

015.071 Y:  He said:  “There are my daughters (to marry), if ye must act (so).”

P:  He said:  Here are my daughters, if ye must be doing (so).

S:  He said:  These are my daughters, if you will do (aught).

015.072 Y:  Verily, by thy life (O Prophet), in their wild intoxication, they wander in distraction, to and fro.

P:  By thy life (O Muhammad) they moved blindly in the frenzy of approaching death.

S:  By your life! they were blindly wandering on in their intoxication.

015.073 Y:  But the (mighty) Blast overtook them before morning,

P:  Then the (Awful) Cry overtook them at the sunrise.

S:  So the rumbling overtook them (while) entering upon the time of sunrise;

015.074 Y:  And We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay.

P:  And We utterly confounded them, and We rained upon them stones of heated clay.

S:  Thus did We turn it upside down, and rained down upon them stones of what had been decreed.