but it is
that which ye did seek to hasten, a wind wherein is painful torment,

S: So when they saw it as a cloud appearing in the sky advancing towards
their valleys, they said: This is a cloud which will give us rain. Nay!
it is what you sought to hasten on, a blast of wind in which is a
painful punishment,

046.025
Y: "Everything will it destroy by the command of its Lord!" Then by the
morning they - nothing was to be seen but (the ruins of) their houses!
thus do We recompense those given to sin!

P: Destroying all things by commandment of its Lord. And morning found
them so that naught could be seen save their dwellings. Thus do We
reward the guilty folk.

S: Destroying everything by the command of its Lord, so they became such
that naught could be seen except their dwellings. Thus do We reward the
guilty people.

046.026
Y: And We had firmly established them in a (prosperity and) power which
We have not given to you (ye Quraish!) and We had endowed them with
(faculties of) hearing, seeing, heart and intellect: but of no profit
to them were their (faculties of) hearing, sight, and heart and
intellect, when they went on rejecting the Signs of Allah; and they
were (completely) encircled by that which they used to mock at!

P: And verily We had empowered them with that wherewith We have not
empowered you, and had assigned them ears and eyes and hearts; but
their ears and eyes and hearts availed them naught since they denied
the revelations of Allah; and what they used to mock befell them.

S: And certainly We had established them in what We have not established
you in, and We had given-- them ears and eyes and hearts, but neither
their ears, nor their eyes, nor their hearts availed them aught, since
they denied the communications of Allah, and that which they mocked
encompassed them.

046.027
Y: We destroyed aforetime populations round about you; and We have shown
the Signs in various ways, that they may turn (to Us).

P: And verily We have destroyed townships round about you, and displayed
(for them) Our revelation, that haply they might return.

S: And certainly We destroyed the towns which are around you, and We
repeat the communications that they might turn.

046.028
Y: Why then was no help forthcoming to them from those whom they
worshipped as gods, besides Allah, as a means of access (to Allah)?
Nay, they left them in the lurch: but that was their falsehood and
their invention.

P: Then why did