Translation of the meanings Surah Fussilat - English Translation - Abdullah Hasan Yaqoub - Page Number 479 - The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia

Ayah: 21

وَقَالُواْ لِجُلُودِهِمۡ لِمَ شَهِدتُّمۡ عَلَيۡنَاۖ قَالُوٓاْ أَنطَقَنَا ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِيٓ أَنطَقَ كُلَّ شَيۡءٖۚ وَهُوَ خَلَقَكُمۡ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٖ وَإِلَيۡهِ تُرۡجَعُونَ

21. They will ask to their skin: "Why have you testified against us?" They will say: "Allāh caused us to speak, who made everything speak. He created you at first, and to Him you are 'all' returned."

Ayah: 22

وَمَا كُنتُمۡ تَسۡتَتِرُونَ أَن يَشۡهَدَ عَلَيۡكُمۡ سَمۡعُكُمۡ وَلَآ أَبۡصَٰرُكُمۡ وَلَا جُلُودُكُمۡ وَلَٰكِن ظَنَنتُمۡ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَعۡلَمُ كَثِيرٗا مِّمَّا تَعۡمَلُونَ

22. You could not cover yourselves from your hearing, sight and skin lest they testify against you, but you thought that Allāh did not know most of what you were doing.

Ayah: 23

وَذَٰلِكُمۡ ظَنُّكُمُ ٱلَّذِي ظَنَنتُم بِرَبِّكُمۡ أَرۡدَىٰكُمۡ فَأَصۡبَحۡتُم مِّنَ ٱلۡخَٰسِرِينَ

23. That 'false' assumption which you assumed about 'Allāh' your Lord has brought you into ruin. Thus, you are now utterly lost.

Ayah: 24

فَإِن يَصۡبِرُواْ فَٱلنَّارُ مَثۡوٗى لَّهُمۡۖ وَإِن يَسۡتَعۡتِبُواْ فَمَا هُم مِّنَ ٱلۡمُعۡتَبِينَ

24. Then, even if they endure patiently, still the Fire is their abode, and if they ask for favor, they will not be granted any favor.

Ayah: 25

۞ وَقَيَّضۡنَا لَهُمۡ قُرَنَآءَ فَزَيَّنُواْ لَهُم مَّا بَيۡنَ أَيۡدِيهِمۡ وَمَا خَلۡفَهُمۡ وَحَقَّ عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡقَوۡلُ فِيٓ أُمَمٖ قَدۡ خَلَتۡ مِن قَبۡلِهِم مِّنَ ٱلۡجِنِّ وَٱلۡإِنسِۖ إِنَّهُمۡ كَانُواْ خَٰسِرِينَ

25. We have appointed for them companions³ so they have made fair-seeming to them what is before them and what is behind them (of their sins), and the Word (the Decree of Allāh) proved true against them - among the nations of the jinn and men that have passed on before them - that they are certainly losers.

3. In the world, among the sinful jinn and men.

Ayah: 26

وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لَا تَسۡمَعُواْ لِهَٰذَا ٱلۡقُرۡءَانِ وَٱلۡغَوۡاْ فِيهِ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَغۡلِبُونَ

26. Those who deny 'the Truth' say: "Do not listen to the Qur’an and make a clamor therein, perhaps you may prevail."

Ayah: 27

فَلَنُذِيقَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ عَذَابٗا شَدِيدٗا وَلَنَجۡزِيَنَّهُمۡ أَسۡوَأَ ٱلَّذِي كَانُواْ يَعۡمَلُونَ

27. We shall certainly make those who deny 'the Truth' taste a severe torment, and requite them according to the worst of what they used to do 'of evil'.

Ayah: 28

ذَٰلِكَ جَزَآءُ أَعۡدَآءِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلنَّارُۖ لَهُمۡ فِيهَا دَارُ ٱلۡخُلۡدِ جَزَآءَۢ بِمَا كَانُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا يَجۡحَدُونَ

28. Such is the requital of the enemies of God - the Hellfire; for them therein will be the eternal Home - a 'fit' recompense for their rejecting Our revelations.

Ayah: 29

وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ رَبَّنَآ أَرِنَا ٱلَّذَيۡنِ أَضَلَّانَا مِنَ ٱلۡجِنِّ وَٱلۡإِنسِ نَجۡعَلۡهُمَا تَحۡتَ أَقۡدَامِنَا لِيَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلۡأَسۡفَلِينَ

29. The disbelievers will say: "Our Lord, show us those who led us astray from among the jinn and men that we may put them under our feet, so that they will be among the lowest 'in Hell'."