P:  And they say unto their skins:  Why testify ye against us?  They say:  Allah hath given us speech Who giveth speech to all things, and Who created you at the first, and unto Whom ye are returned.

S:  And they shall say to their skins:  Why have you borne witness against us?  They shall say:  Allah Who makes everything speak has made us speak, and He created you at first, and to Him you shall be brought back.

041.022 Y:  “Ye did not seek to hide yourselves, lest your hearing, your sight, and your skins should bear witness against you!  But ye did think that Allah knew not many of the things that ye used to do!”

P:  Ye did not hide yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should testify against you, but ye deemed that Allah knew not much of what ye did.

S:  And you did not veil yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should bear witness against you, but you thought that Allah did not know most of what you did.

041.023 Y:  “But this thought of yours which ye did entertain concerning your Lord, hath brought you to destruction, and (now) have ye become of those utterly lost!”

P:  That, your thought which ye did think about your Lord, hath ruined you; and ye find yourselves (this day) among the lost.

S:  And that was your (evil) thought which you entertained about your Lord that has tumbled you down into perdition, so are you become of the lost ones.

041.024 Y:  If, then, they have patience, the Fire will be a home for them! and if they beg to be received into favour, into favour will they not (then) be received.

P:  And though they are resigned, yet the Fire is still their home; and if they ask for favour, yet they are not of those unto whom favour can be shown.

S:  Then if they will endure, still the fire is their abode, and if they ask for goodwill, then are they not of those who shall be granted goodwill.

041.025 Y:  And We have destined for them intimate companions (of like nature), who made alluring to them what was before them and behind them; and the sentence among the previous generations of jinns and men, who have passed away, is proved against them; for they are utterly lost.

P:  And We assigned them comrades (in the world), who made their present and their past fairseeming unto them.  And the Word concerning nations of the jinn and humankind who passed away before them hath effect for them.  Lo! they were ever losers.

S:  And We have appointed for them comrades so they have made fair-seeming to them what is before them and what is behind them, and the word proved true against them—­ among the nations of the jinn and the men that have passed away before them—­ that they shall surely be losers.

041.026 Y:  The Unbelievers say:  “Listen not to this Qur’an, but talk at random in the midst of its (reading), that ye may gain the upper hand!”