ake them bodies not eating the food, and they were
not to abide (forever).

021.009
Y: In the end We fulfilled to them Our Promise, and We saved them and
those whom We pleased, but We destroyed those who transgressed beyond
bounds.

P: Then we fulfilled the promise unto them. So we delivered them and
whom We would, and We destroyed the prodigals.

S: Then We made Our promise good to them, so We delivered them and those
whom We pleased, and We destroyed the extravagant.

021.010
Y: We have revealed for you (O men!) a book in which is a Message for
you: will ye not then understand?

P: Now We have revealed unto you a Scripture wherein is your Reminder.
Have ye then no sense?

S: Certainly We have revealed to you a Book in which is your good
remembrance; what! do you not then understand?

021.011
Y: How many were the populations We utterly destroyed because of their
iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples?

P: How many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and
raised up after them another folk!

S: And how many a town which was iniquitous did We demolish, and We
raised up after it another people!

021.012
Y: Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold, they (tried to)
flee from it.

P: And, when they felt Our might, behold them fleeing from it!

S: So when they felt Our punishment, lo! they began to fly

021.013
Y: Flee not, but return to the good things of this life which were given
you, and to your homes in order that ye may be called to account.

P: (But it was said unto them): Flee not, but return to that (existence)
which emasculated you and to your dwellings, that ye may be questioned.

S: Do not fly (now) and come back to what you were made to lead easy
lives in and to your dwellings, haply you will be questioned.

021.014
Y: They said: "Ah! woe to us! We were indeed wrong-doers!"

P: They cried: Alas for us! we were wrong-doers.

S: They said: O woe to us! surely we were unjust.

021.015
Y: And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that
is mown, as ashes silent and quenched.

P: And this their crying ceased not till We made them as reaped corn,
extinct.

S: And this ceased not to be their cry till We made them cut

021.016
Y: Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all
that is between!

P: We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them
in play.

S: And We did not create the he