P:  Say (unto them):  Except (your fill)!  Lo!  I am with you among the expectant.

S:  Say:  Wait, for surely I too with you am of those who wait.

052.032 Y:  Is it that their faculties of understanding urge them to this, or are they but a people transgressing beyond bounds?

P:  Do their minds command them to do this, or are they an outrageous folk?

S:  Nay! do their understandings bid them this?  Or are they an inordinate people?

052.033 Y:  Or do they say, “He fabricated the (Message)”?  Nay, they have no faith!

P:  Or say they:  He hath invented it?  Nay, but they will not believe!

S:  Or do they say:  He has forged it.  Nay! they do not believe.

052.034 Y:  Let them then produce a recital like unto it,- If (it be) they speak the truth!

P:  Then let them produce speech the like thereof, if they are truthful.

S:  Then let them bring an announcement like it if they are truthful.

052.035 Y:  Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators?

P:  Or were they created out of naught?  Or are they the creators?

S:  Or were they created without there being anything, or are they the creators?

052.036 Y:  Or did they create the heavens and the earth?  Nay, they have no firm belief.

P:  Or did they create the heavens and the earth?  Nay, but they are sure of nothing!

S:  Or did they create the heavens and the earth?  Nay! they have no certainty.

052.037 Y:  Or are the Treasures of thy Lord with them, or are they the managers (of affairs)?

P:  Or do they own the treasures of thy Lord?  Or have they been given charge (thereof)?

S:  Or have they the treasures of your Lord with them?  Or have they been set in absolute authority?

052.038 Y:  Or have they a ladder, by which they can (climb up to heaven and) listen (to its secrets)?  Then let (such a) listener of theirs produce a manifest proof.

P:  Or have they any stairway (unto heaven) by means of which they overhear (decrees).  Then let their listener produce some warrant manifest!

S:  Or have they the means by which they listen?  Then let their listener bring a clear authority.

052.039 Y:  Or has He only daughters and ye have sons?

P:  Or hath He daughters whereas ye have sons?

S:  Or has He daughters while you have sons?

052.040 Y:  Or is it that thou dost ask for a reward, so that they are burdened with a load of debt?-

P:  Or askest thou (Muhammad) a fee from them so that they are plunged in debt?

S:  Or do you ask them for a reward, so that they are overburdened by a debt?

052.041 Y:  Or that the Unseen in it their hands, and they write it down?

P:  Or possess they the Unseen so that they can write (it) down?

S:  Or have they the unseen so that they write (it) down?