42. Sura ash-Shura
The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
إِنَّمَا
السَّبِيلُ
عَلَى
الَّذِينَ
يَظْلِمُونَ
النَّاسَ
وَيَبْغُونَ
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
بِغَيْرِ
الْحَقِّ...
42:42. The blame is only against those who oppress men with wrongdoing and insolently transgress beyond bounds through the land, defying right and justice:
C4585. The fact that men seek the lower rather than the higher Law is itself a result of arrogant wrong-doing of which the type was the Pharaoh who claimed to be "your Lord Most High" and oppressed the Israelites, and kept his own people under slavery and subjection, and the false glamour of magic and deception.
...أُوْلَئِكَ لَهُم عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ﴿٤٢﴾
for such there will be a Penalty grievous.
وَمَن
يُضْلِلِ
اللَّهُ
فَمَا
لَهُ
مِن
وَلِيٍّ
مِّن
بَعْدِهِ...
42:44. For any whom Allah leaves astray, there is no protector thereafter,
...وَتَرَى الظَّالِمِينَ لَمَّا رَأَوُا الْعَذَابَ يَقُولُونَ هَلْ إِلَى مَرَدٍّ مِّن سَبِيلٍ ﴿٤٤﴾
and thou wilt see the wrongdoers, when in sight of the Penalty, Say:
"Is there any way (to effect) a return?
وَتَرَاهُمْ
يُعْرَضُونَ
عَلَيْهَا
خَاشِعِينَ
مِنَ
الذُّلِّ
يَنظُرُونَ
مِن
طَرْفٍ
خَفِيٍّ...
42: 45. And thou wilt see them brought forward to the (Penalty), in a humble frame of mind because of (their) disgrace, (and) looking with a stealthy glance.
...وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّ الْخَاسِرِينَ الَّذِينَ خَسِرُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ وَأَهْلِيهِمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ...
And the Believers will say:
"Those are indeed in loss, who have given the perdition their own selves and those belonging to them on the Day of Judgement.
...أَلَا إِنَّ الظَّالِمِينَ فِي عَذَابٍ مُّقِيمٍ ﴿٤٥﴾
Behold! truly the wrongdoers are in a lasting Penalty!"
Asad’s Version:
(42:42) blame attaches but to those who oppress [other] people and behave outrageously on earth, offending against all right: for them there is grievous suffering in store!
Asad’s version
42:44 AND [thus it is:] he whom God lets go astray" has henceforth no protector whatever: and so thou wilt see such evildoers 44 [on Judgment Day, and wilt hear how] they exclaim as soon as they behold the suffering [that awaits them], "Is there any way of return?" 45
42:45 And thou wilt see them exposed to that [doom], humbling themselves in abasement, looking [around] with a furtive glance - the while those who had attained to faith will say, "Verily, lost on [this] Day of Resurrection are they who have squandered their own and their followers' selves!" u Oh, verily, the evildoers will fall into long-lasting suffering, (42:46) and will have no protector whatever to succour them against God: for he whom God lets go astray shall find no way [of escape].
[[ Adad’s notes - 44 Although this is primarily a reference to "those who oppress [other] people and behave outrageously on earth, offending against all right" (verse 42 above), the meaning of the term is general, applying to all kinds of deliberate evildoers.
45 I.e., a "second chance" on earth: cf. 6:27-28. ]]