35. Walaqad atayna moosa alkitaba wajaAAalna maAAahu akhahu haroona wazeeran
35. (Before this,) We sent Moses The Book, and appointed his brother Aaron with him as minister;
36. Faqulna ithhaba ila alqawmi allatheena kaththaboo bi-ayatina fadammarnahum tadmeeran
36. And We command: "Go ye both, to the people who have rejected our Signs:" And those (people) We destroyed with utter destruction.
37. Waqawma noohin lamma kaththaboo alrrusula aghraqnahum wajaAAalnahum lilnnasi ayatan waaAAtadna lilththalimeena AAathaban aleeman
37. And the people of Noah,--when they rejected the apostles, We drowned them, and We made them as a Sign for mankind; and We have prepared for (all) wrong-doers a grievous Penalty;--
38. WaAAadan wathamooda waas-haba alrrassi waquroonan bayna thalika katheeran
38. As also 'Ad and Thamud, and the Companions of the Rass, and many a generation between them.
39. Wakullan darabna lahu al-amthala wakullan tabbarna tatbeeran
39. To each one We set forth Parables and examples; and each one We broke to utter annihilation (for their sins).
40. Walaqad ataw AAala alqaryati allatee omtirat matara alssaw-i afalam yakoonoo yarawnaha bal kanoo la yarjoona nushooran
40. And the (Unbelievers) must indeed have passed by the town on which was rained a shower of evil: did they not then see it (with their own eyes)? But they fear not the Resurrection.
41. Wa-itha raawka in yattakhithoonaka illa huzuwan ahatha allathee baAAatha Allahu rasoolan
41. When they see thee, they treat thee no otherwise than in mockery: "Is this the one whom Allah has sent as an apostle?"
42. In kada layudilluna AAan alihatina lawla an sabarna AAalayha wasawfa yaAAlamoona heena yarawna alAAathaba man adallu sabeelan
42. "He indeed would well-nigh have misled us from our gods, had it not been that we were constant to them!" - Soon will they know, when they see the Penalty, who it is that is most misled in Path!
43. Araayta mani ittakhatha ilahahu hawahu afaanta takoonu AAalayhi wakeelan
43. Seest thou such a one as taketh for his god his own passion (or impulse)? Couldst thou be a disposer of affairs for him?
44. Am tahsabu anna aktharahum yasmaAAoona aw yaAAqiloona in hum illa kaal-anAAami bal hum adallu sabeelan
44. Or thinkest thou that most of them listen or understand? They are only like cattle;-- nay, they are worse astray in Path.