30. Surah Ar Rum

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

اللَّهُ يَبْدَأُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ ...

30: 11. It is Allah Who begins (the process of) creation;

then repeats it;

... ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ ﴿١١﴾

then shall ye be brought back to Him.

وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ يُبْلِسُ الْمُجْرِمُونَ ﴿١٢﴾

30: 12. On the Day that the Hour will be established, the guilty will be struck dumb with despair.

C3518. The Hour will be established: in due time the Hour will come when Judgment will be established, and the seeming disturbance of balance in this world will be redressed. Then the Good will rejoice, and the Guilty, faced with the Realities, will lose all their illusions and be struck dumb with despair.

وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُم مِّن شُرَكَائِهِمْ شُفَعَاء...

30: 13. No intercessor will they have among their "Partners,"

C3519. False worship will then appear in its true colors. Anything to which we offered the worship due to Allah alone, will vanish instead of being of any help.

Indeed the deluded false worshipers, whose eyes will now be opened, will themselves reject their falsehoods, as the Truth will now shine with unquestioned splendor.

... وَكَانُوا بِشُرَكَائِهِمْ كَافِرِينَ ﴿١٣﴾

and they will (themselves) reject their "Partners."

Asad’s Version:

30:11

GOD CREATES [man] in the first instance, and then brings him forth anew:' and, in the end, unto Him you all will be brought back.

(30:12) And when the Last Hour dawns, those who were lost in sin will be broken in spirit:

(30: 13) for they will have no intercessors in the beings to whom they were wont to ascribe a share in God's divinity, 10 seeing that [by then] they themselves will have ceased to believe in their erstwhile blasphemous fancies. 11