70. Surah al-Ma'arij

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

فَلَا أُقْسِمُ ...

70: 40.  Now I do call to witness...

C5700. For the form of adjuration, cf. 69:38, n. 5665; also 56:75.

Here the witness placed before us by Allah is His own power and glory manifested in the splendour of sunrise and sunset at different points through the solar year,

... بِرَبِّ الْمَشَارِقِ وَالْمَغَارِبِ ...

... the Lord of all points in the East and the West ...

C5701. See n. 4034 to 37:5.

If Allah has such power in the wonderful phenomena of the rising of the sun at varying points, repeated year after year, can you not see that He can easily substitute better men than you Unbelievers and blasphemers?

... إِنَّا لَقَادِرُونَ ﴿٤٠﴾

... that We can certainly --

C5702. The transition from the singular "I" to the plural "We" may be noted. See n. 56 to 2:38.

عَلَى أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ ...

70: 41.  Substitute for them better (men) than they;

 ... وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ ﴿٤١﴾

and We are not to be defeated (in Our Plan).

Yuksel’s Version:

70:40 So I swear by the Lord of the east and the west that We are able.

70:41 To replace them with better people, We can never be defeated.