S: Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord and do not follow guardians besides Him, how little do you mind.
007.004 Y: How many towns have We destroyed (for their sins)? Our punishment took them on a sudden by night or while they slept for their afternoon rest.
P: How many a township have We destroyed! As a raid by night, or while they slept at noon, Our terror came unto them.
S: And how many a town that We destroyed, so Our punishment came to it by night or while they slept at midday.
007.005
Y: When (thus) Our punishment took them, no cry did they utter but this:
"Indeed we did wrong."
P: No plea had they, when Our terror came unto them, save that they said: Lo! We were wrong-doers.
S: Yet their cry, when Our punishment came to them, was nothing but that they said: Surely we were unjust.
007.006 Y: Then shall we question those to whom Our message was sent and those by whom We sent it.
P: Then verily We shall question those unto whom (Our message) hath been sent, and verily We shall question the messengers.
S: Most certainly then We will question those to whom (the messengers) were sent, and most certainly We will also question the messengers;