017.052 Y:  “It will be on a Day when He will call you, and ye will answer (His call) with (words of) His praise, and ye will think that ye tarried but a little while!”

P:  A day when He will call you and ye will answer with His praise, and ye will think that ye have tarried but a little while.

S:  On the day when He will call you forth, then shall you obey Him, giving Him praise, and you will think that you tarried but a little (while).

017.053 Y:  Say to My servants that they should (only) say those things that are best:  for Satan doth sow dissensions among them:  For Satan is to man an avowed enemy.

P:  Tell My bondmen to speak that which is kindlier.  Lo! the devil soweth discord among them.  Lo! the devil is for man an open foe.

S:  And say to My servants (that) they speak that which is best; surely the Shaitan sows dissensions among them; surely the Shaitan is an open enemy to man.

017.054 Y:  It is your Lord that knoweth you best:  If He please, He granteth you mercy, or if He please, punishment:  We have not sent thee to be a disposer of their affairs for them.

P:  Your Lord is Best Aware of you.  If He will, He will have mercy on you, or if He will, He will punish you.  We have not sent thee (O Muhammad) as a warden over them.

S:  Your Lord knows you best; He will have mercy on you if He pleases, or He will chastise you if He pleases; and We have not sent you as being in charge of them.

017.055 Y:  And it is your Lord that knoweth best all beings that are in the heavens and on earth:  We did bestow on some prophets more (and other) gifts than on others:  and We gave to David (the gift of) the Psalms.

P:  And thy Lord is Best Aware of all who are in the heavens and the earth.  And we preferred some of the prophets above others, and unto David We gave the Psalms.

S:  And your Lord best knows those who are in the heavens and the earth; and certainly We have made some of the prophets to excel others, and to Dawood We gave a scripture.

017.056 Y:  Say:  “Call on those — besides Him — whom ye fancy:  they have neither the power to remove your troubles from you nor to change them.”

P:  Say:  Cry unto those (saints and angels) whom ye assume (to be gods) beside Him, yet they have no power to rid you of misfortune nor to change.

S:  Say:  Call on those whom you assert besides Him, so they shall not control the removal of distress from you nor (its) transference.

017.057 Y:  Those whom they call upon do desire (for themselves) means of access to their Lord, — even those who are nearest:  they hope for His Mercy and fear His Wrath:  for the Wrath of thy Lord is something to take heed of.

P:  Those unto whom they cry seek the way of approach to their Lord, which of them shall be the nearest; they hope for His mercy and they fear His doom.  Lo! the doom of thy Lord is to be shunned.