025.007 Y:  And they say:  “What sort of a messenger is this, who eats food, and walks through the streets?  Why has not an angel been sent down to him to give admonition with him?”

P:  And they say:  What aileth this messenger (of Allah) that he eateth food and walketh in the markets?  Why is not an angel sent down unto him, to be a warner with him.

S:  And they say:  What is the matter with this Messenger that he eats food and goes about in the markets; why has not an angel been sent down to him, so that he should have been a warner with him?

025.008 Y:  “Or (Why) has not a treasure been bestowed on him, or why has he (not) a garden for enjoyment?” The wicked say:  “Ye follow none other than a man bewitched.”

P:  Or (why is not) treasure thrown down unto him, or why hath he not a paradise from whence to eat?  And the evil-doers say:  Ye are but following a man bewitched.

S:  Or (why is not) a treasure sent down to him, or he is made to have a garden from which he should eat?  And the unjust say:  You do not follow any but a man deprived of reason.

025.009 Y:  See what kinds of comparisons they make for thee!  But they have gone astray, and never a way will they be able to find!

P:  See how they coin similitudes for thee, so that they are all astray and cannot find a road!

S:  See what likenesses do they apply to you, so they have gone astray, therefore they shall not be able to find a way.

025.010 Y:  Blessed is He who, if that were His will, could give thee better (things) than those,- Gardens beneath which rivers flow; and He could give thee palaces (secure to dwell in).

P:  Blessed is He Who, if He will, will assign thee better than (all) that — Gardens underneath which rivers flow — and will assign thee mansions.

S:  Blessed is He Who, if He please, will give you what is better than this, gardens beneath which rivers flow, and He will give you palaces.

025.011 Y:  Nay they deny the hour (of the judgment to come):  but We have prepared a blazing fire for such as deny the hour: 

P:  Nay, but they deny (the coming of) the Hour, and for those who deny (the coming of) the Hour We have prepared a flame.

S:  But they reject the hour, and We have prepared a burning fire for him who rejects the hour.

025.012 Y:  When it sees them from a place far off, they will hear its fury and its ranging sigh.

P:  When it seeth them from afar, they hear the crackling and the roar thereof.

S:  When it shall come into their sight from a distant place, they shall hear its vehement raging and roaring.

025.013 Y:  And when they are cast, bound together into a constricted place therein, they will plead for destruction there and then!

P:  And when they are flung into a narrow place thereof, chained together, they pray for destruction there.