P: So keep your duty to Allah and obey me.

S: Therefore guard against (the punishment of) Allah and obey me:

026.180
Y: "No reward do I ask of you for it: my reward is only from the Lord of
the Worlds."

P: And I ask of you no wage for it; my wage is the concern only of the
Lord of the Worlds.

S: And I do not ask you any reward for it, my reward is only with the
Lord of the worlds;

026.181
Y: "Give just measure, and cause no loss (to others by fraud)."

P: Give full measure, and be not of those who give less (than the due).

S: Give a full measure and be not of those who diminish;

026.182
Y: "And weigh with scales true and upright."

P: And weigh with the true balance.

S: And weigh (things) with a right balance,

026.183
Y: "And withhold not things justly due to men, nor do evil in the land,
working mischief."

P: Wrong not mankind in their goods, and do not evil, making mischief,
in the earth.

S: And do not wrong men of their things, and do not act corruptly in the
earth, making mischief.

026.184
Y: "And fear Him Who created you and (who created) the generations
before (you)."

P: And keep your duty unto Him Who created you and the generations of
the men of old.

S: And guard against (the punishment of) Him who created you and the
former nations.

026.185
Y: They said: "Thou art only one of those bewitched!"

P: They said: Thou art but one of the bewitched;

S: They said: You are only of those deluded;

026.186
Y: "Thou art no more than a mortal like us, and indeed we think thou art
a liar!"

P: Thou art but a mortal like us, and lo! we deem thee of the liars.

S: And you are naught but a mortal like ourselves, and we know you to be
certainly of the liars.

026.187
Y: "Now cause a piece of the sky to fall on us, if thou art truthful!"

P: Then make fragments of the heaven fall upon us, if thou art of the
truthful.

S: Therefore cause a portion of the heaven to come down upon us, if you
are one of the truthful.

026.188
Y: He said: "My Lord knows best what ye do."

P: He said: My Lord is Best Aware of what ye do.

S: He said: My Lord knows best what you do.

026.189
Y: But they rejected him. Then the punishment of a day of overshadowing
gloom seized them, and that was the Penalty of a Great Day.

P: But they denied him, so there came on them the retribution of the day
of gloom. Lo! it was the retribution of an awful day.

S: But they called him a liar, so the p