"

P: His comrade, when he (thus) spake with him, exclaimed: Disbelievest
thou in Him Who created thee of dust, then of a drop (of seed), and
then fashioned thee a man?

S: His companion said to him while disputing with him: Do you disbelieve
in Him Who created you from dust, then from a small seed, then He made
you a perfect man?

018.038
Y: "But (I think) for my part that He is Allah, My Lord, and none shall
I associate with my Lord."

P: But He is Allah, my Lord, and I ascribe unto my Lord no partner.

S: But as for me, He, Allah, is my Lord, and I do not associate anyone
with my Lord.

018.039
Y: "Why didst thou not, as thou wentest into thy garden, say:
'Allah's will (be done)! There is no power but with Allah!' If thou dost
see me less than thee in wealth and sons,"

P: If only, when thou enteredst thy garden, thou hadst said: That which
Allah willeth (will come to pass)! There is no strength save in Allah!
Though thou seest me as less than thee in wealth and children,

S: And wherefore did you not say when you entered your garden: It is as
Allah has pleased, there is no power save in Allah? If you consider me
to be inferior to you in wealth and children,

018.040
Y: "It may be that my Lord will give me something better than thy
garden, and that He will send on thy garden thunderbolts (by way of
reckoning) from heaven, making it (but) slippery sand!-"

P: Yet it may be that my Lord will give me better than thy garden, and
will send on it a bolt from heaven, and some morning it will be a
smooth hillside,

S: Then maybe my Lord will give me what is better than your garden, and
send on it a thunderbolt from heaven so that it shall become even
ground without plant,

018.041
Y: "Or the water of the garden will run off underground so that thou
wilt never be able to find it."

P: Or some morning the water thereof will be lost in the earth so that
thou canst not make search for it.

S: Or its waters should sink down into the ground so that you are unable
to find it.

018.042
Y: So his fruits (and enjoyment) were encompassed (with ruin), and he
remained twisting and turning his hands over what he had spent on his
property, which had (now) tumbled to pieces to its very foundations,
and he could only say, "Woe is me! Would I had never ascribed partners
to my Lord and Cherisher!"

P: And his fruit was beset (with destruction). Then began he to wring
his hands for all that he had spent upon it, when (