026.177 Y:  Behold, Shu’aib said to them:  “Will ye not fear (Allah)?”

P:  When Shu’eyb said unto them:  Will ye not ward off (evil)?

S:  When Shu’aib said to them:  Will you not guard (against evil)?

026.178 Y:  “I am to you a messenger worthy of all trust.”

P:  Lo!  I am a faithful messenger unto you,

S:  Surely I am a faithful messenger to you;

026.179 Y:  “So fear Allah and obey me.”

P:  So keep your duty to Allah and obey me.

S:  Therefore guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me: 

026.180 Y:  “No reward do I ask of you for it:  my reward is only from the Lord of the Worlds.”

P:  And I ask of you no wage for it; my wage is the concern only of the
Lord of the Worlds.

S:  And I do not ask you any reward for it, my reward is only with the
Lord of the worlds;

026.181 Y:  “Give just measure, and cause no loss (to others by fraud).”

P:  Give full measure, and be not of those who give less (than the due).

S:  Give a full measure and be not of those who diminish;

026.182 Y:  “And weigh with scales true and upright.”

P:  And weigh with the true balance.

S:  And weigh (things) with a right balance,

026.183 Y:  “And withhold not things justly due to men, nor do evil in the land, working mischief.”

P:  Wrong not mankind in their goods, and do not evil, making mischief, in the earth.

S:  And do not wrong men of their things, and do not act corruptly in the earth, making mischief.

026.184 Y:  “And fear Him Who created you and (who created) the generations before (you).”

P:  And keep your duty unto Him Who created you and the generations of the men of old.

S:  And guard against (the punishment of) Him who created you and the former nations.

026.185 Y:  They said:  “Thou art only one of those bewitched!”

P:  They said:  Thou art but one of the bewitched;

S:  They said:  You are only of those deluded;

026.186 Y:  “Thou art no more than a mortal like us, and indeed we think thou art a liar!”

P:  Thou art but a mortal like us, and lo! we deem thee of the liars.

S:  And you are naught but a mortal like ourselves, and we know you to be certainly of the liars.

026.187 Y:  “Now cause a piece of the sky to fall on us, if thou art truthful!”

P:  Then make fragments of the heaven fall upon us, if thou art of the truthful.

S:  Therefore cause a portion of the heaven to come down upon us, if you are one of the truthful.

026.188 Y:  He said:  “My Lord knows best what ye do.”

P:  He said:  My Lord is Best Aware of what ye do.

S:  He said:  My Lord knows best what you do.

026.189 Y:  But they rejected him.  Then the punishment of a day of overshadowing gloom seized them, and that was the Penalty of a Great Day.