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27. Surah An-Naml

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

قُلْ سِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَانظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُجْرِمِينَ ﴿٦٩﴾

27: 69. Say: "Go ye through the earth and see what has been the end of those guilty (of sin)."

C3305. Even if the Unbelievers are unwilling to take any doctrine, they have only to observe what has actually happened on the earth, and they will see that evil always came to an evil end, and that Truth and righteousness ultimately won.

وَلَا تَحْزَنْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا تَكُن فِي ضَيْقٍ مِّمَّا يَمْكُرُونَ ﴿٧٠﴾

27: 70. But grieve not over them, nor distress thyself because of their plots.

C3306. Cf. 16:127, and n. 2164.

'The righteous need not worry over the unjust. The plots of the unjust can never defeat or deflect the purpose of Allah.

Asad’s Version:

27:69 Say: "Go all over the earth and behold what happened in the end to those [who were thus] lost in sin

(27:70) But do not grieve over them, and neither be distressed by the false arguments which they devise [against God's messages]. 67

[Asad’s note - 65 I.e., blind to its logical necessity within God's plan of creation. For, it is only on the premise of a life after death that the concept of maris moral responsibility and, hence, of God's ultimate judgment can have any meaning; and if there is no moral responsibility, there can be no question of a preceding moral choice; and if the absence of choice is taken for granted, all differentiation between right and wrong becomes utterly meaningless as well.]]