P:  Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those before them?  They were more numerous than these, and mightier in power and (in the) traces (which they left behind them) in the earth.  But all that they used to earn availed them not.

S:  Have they not then journeyed in the land and seen how was the end of those before them?  They were more (in numbers) than these and greater in strength and in fortifications in the land, but what they earned did not avail them.

040.083 Y:  For when their messengers came to them with Clear Signs, they exulted in such knowledge (and skill) as they had; but that very (Wrath) at which they were wont to scoff hemmed them in.

P:  And when their messengers brought them clear proofs (of Allah’s Sovereignty) they exulted in the knowledge they (themselves) possessed.  And that which they were wont to mock befell them.

S:  Then when their messengers came to them with clear arguments, they exulted in what they had with them of knowledge, and there beset them that which they used to mock.

040.084 Y:  But when they saw Our Punishment, they said:  “We believe in Allah,- the one Allah — and we reject the partners we used to join with Him.”

P:  Then, when they saw Our doom, they said:  We believe in Allah only and reject (all) that we used to associate (with Him).

S:  But when they saw Our punishment, they said:  We believe in Allah alone and we deny what we used to associate with Him.

040.085 Y:  But their professing the Faith when they (actually) saw Our Punishment was not going to profit them. (Such has been) Allah’s Way of dealing with His Servants (from the most ancient times).  And even thus did the Rejecters of Allah perish (utterly)!

P:  But their faith could not avail them when they saw Our doom.  This is Allah’s law which hath ever taken course for His bondmen.  And then the disbelievers will be ruined.

S:  But their belief was not going to profit them when they had seen Our punishment; (this is) Allah’s law, which has indeed obtained in the matter of His servants, and there the unbelievers are lost.

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Chapter 41: 

FUSSILAT (explained in detail)
Total Verses:  54 Revealed At:  Makka

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In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

041.001 Y:  Ha Mim: 

P:  Ha.  Mim.

S:  Ha Mim!

041.002 Y:  A Revelation from (Allah), Most Gracious, Most Merciful;-

P:  A revelation from the Beneficent, the Merciful,

S:  A revelation from the Beneficent, the Merciful Allah: 

041.003 Y:  A Book, whereof the verses are explained in detail;- a Qur’an in Arabic, for people who understand;-