Sura-27 [An Naml Mecca 48]

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.

وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَى هَذَا الْوَعْدُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ ﴿٧١﴾

27:71. They also say: "When will this promise (come to pass)?

(Say) if ye are truthful."

قُلْ عَسَى أَن يَكُونَ رَدِفَ لَكُم بَعْضُ الَّذِي تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ ﴿٧٢﴾

27:72. Say: "It may be that some of the events which ye wish to hasten on may be (close) in your pursuit!"

C3307. The Unbelievers -or even men of half-hearted faith- may say, "Why worry over distant future events? Take the day as it comes!"

But that is a fallacy. Judgment is certain, and it may be that this very hour may be the hour of doom for any given individual.

This is the hour of repentance and amendment. For Allah wishes well to all mankind in spite of their ingratitude.

وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَشْكُرُونَ ﴿٧٣﴾

27:73. But verily thy Lord is full of grace to mankind: yet most of them are ungrateful.

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

(27:71) And [when] they ask, "When is this promise [of resurrection] to be fulfilled? [Answer this, O you who believe in it,] if you are men of truth!" –

(27:72) say thou: "It may well be that something of that which [in your

ignorance] you so hastily demand'" has already drawn close unto you...."

27:73 Now, verily, thy Sustainer is indeed limitless in His bounty unto men - but most of them are bereft of gratitude.

(27:74) But, verily, thy Sustainer knows all that their hearts conceal as welt as all that they bring into the open:

(27:75) for there is nothing [so deeply] hidden in the

heavens or on earth but is recorded in (His] clear decree.