say:
"Ah! Would that my Record had not been given to me!"

P: But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say:
Oh, would that I had not been given my book

S: And as for him who is given his book in his left hand he shall say: O
would that my book had never been given me:

069.026
Y: "And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!"

P: And knew not what my reckoning!

S: And I had not known what my account was:

069.027
Y: "Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!"

P: Oh, would that it had been death!

S: O would that it had made an end (of me):

069.028
Y: "Of no profit to me has been my wealth!"

P: My wealth hath not availed me,

S: My wealth has availed me nothing:

069.029
Y: "My power has perished from me!"...

P: My power hath gone from me.

S: My authority is gone away from me.

069.030
Y: (The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,"

P: (It will be said): Take him and fetter him

S: Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,

069.031
Y: "And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire."

P: And then expose him to hell-fire

S: Then cast him into the burning fire,

069.032
Y: "Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy
cubits!"

P: And then insert him in a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits.

S: Then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits.

069.033
Y: "This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High."

P: Lo! He used not to believe in Allah the Tremendous,

S: Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Great,

069.034
Y: "And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!"

P: And urged not on the feeding of the wretched.

S: Nor did he urge the feeding of the poor.

069.035
Y: "So no friend hath he here this Day."

P: Therefor hath he no lover here this day,

S: Therefore he has not here today a true friend,

069.036
Y: "Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of
wounds,"

P: Nor any food save filth

S: Nor any food except refuse,

069.037
Y: "Which none do eat but those in sin."

P: Which none but sinners eat.

S: Which none but the wrongdoers eat.

069.038
Y: So I do call to witness what ye see,

P: But nay! I swear by all that ye see

S: But nay! I swear by that which you see,

069.039
Y: And what ye see not,

P: And all that ye see not

S: And that which you do not see.

069.040
Y: That this is verily the word of an hon