P:  When He created you by (divers) stages?

S:  And indeed He has created you through various grades: 

071.015 Y:  “’See ye not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another,’”

P:  See ye not how Allah hath created seven heavens in harmony,

S:  Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another,

071.016 Y:  “’And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp?’”

P:  And hath made the moon a light therein, and made the sun a lamp?

S:  And made the moon therein a light, and made the sun a lamp?

071.017 Y:  “‘And Allah has produced you from the earth growing (gradually),’”

P:  And Allah hath caused you to grow as a growth from the earth,

S:  And Allah has made you grow out of the earth as a growth: 

071.018 Y:  “’And in the End He will return you into the (earth), and raise you forth (again at the Resurrection)?’”

P:  And afterward He maketh you return thereto, and He will bring you forth again, a (new) forthbringing.

S:  Then He returns you to it, then will He bring you forth a (new) bringing forth: 

071.019 Y:  “‘And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out),’”

P:  And Allah hath made the earth a wide expanse for you

S:  And Allah has made for you the earth a wide expanse,

071.020 Y:  “‘That ye may go about therein, in spacious roads.’”

P:  That ye may thread the valley-ways thereof.

S:  That you may go along therein in wide paths.

071.021 Y:  Noah said:  “O my Lord!  They have disobeyed me, but they follow (men) whose wealth and children give them no increase but only Loss.”

P:  Noah said:  My Lord!  Lo! they have disobeyed me and followed one whose wealth and children increase him in naught save ruin;

S:  Nuh said:  My Lord! surely they have disobeyed me and followed him whose wealth and children have added to him nothing but loss.

071.022 Y:  “And they have devised a tremendous Plot.”

P:  And they have plotted a mighty plot,

S:  And they have planned a very great plan.

071.023 Y:  “And they have said (to each other), ’Abandon not your gods:  Abandon neither Wadd nor Suwa’, neither Yaguth nor Ya’uq, nor Nasr’;"-

P:  And they have said:  Forsake not your gods.  Forsake not Wadd, nor
Suwa’, nor Yaghuth and Ya’uq and Nasr.

S:  And they say:  By no means leave your gods, nor leave Wadd, nor Suwa; nor Yaghus, and Yauq and Nasr.

071.024 Y:  “They have already misled many; and grant Thou no increase to the wrong-doers but in straying (from their mark).”

P:  And they have led many astray, and Thou increasest the wrong-doers in naught save error.

S:  And indeed they have led astray many, and do not increase the unjust in aught but error.