P: The chiefs among them go about, exhorting: Go and be staunch to your gods! Lo! this is a thing designed.
S: And the chief persons of them break forth, saying: Go and steadily adhere to your gods; this is most surely a thing sought after.
038.007 Y: "We never heard (the like) of this among the people of these latter days: this is nothing but a made-up tale!"
P: We have not heard of this in later religion. This is naught but an invention.
S: We never heard of this in the former faith; this is nothing but a forgery:
038.008 Y: "What! has the Message been sent to him - (Of all persons) among us?"…but they are in doubt concerning My (Own) Message! Nay, they have not yet tasted My Punishment!
P: Hath the reminder been unto him (alone) among us? Nay, but they are in doubt concerning My reminder; nay but they have not yet tasted My doom.
S: Has the reminder been revealed to him from among us? Nay! they are in doubt as to My reminder. Nay! they have not yet tasted My chastisement!
038.009
Y: Or have they the treasures of the mercy of thy Lord,- the Exalted in
Power, the Grantor of Bounties without measure?
P: Or are theirs the treasures of the mercy of thy Lord, the Mighty, the
Bestower?