The Originator
35. Fāṭir
فاطر
Page #439
35:43
اسْتِكْبَارًا
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
وَمَكْرَ
السَّيِّئِ
وَلَا
يَحِيقُ
الْمَكْرُ
السَّيِّئُ
إِلَّا
بِأَهْلِهِ
فَهَلْ
يَنظُرُونَ
إِلَّا
سُنَّتَ
الْأَوَّلِينَ
فَلَن
تَجِدَ
لِسُنَّتِ
اللَّهِ
تَبْدِيلًا
وَلَن
تَجِدَ
لِسُنَّتِ
اللَّهِ
تَحْوِيلًا
istikbāran fī l-ʾarḍi wa-makra s-sayyiʾi wa-lā yaḥīqu l-makru s-sayyiʾu ʾillā bi-ʾahlihī fa-hal yanẓurūna ʾillā sunnata l-ʾawwalīna fa-lan tajida li-sunnati llāhi tabdīlan wa-lan tajida li-sunnati llāhi taḥwīlan
due to their domineering [conduct] in the land and their devising of evil schemes; and evil schemes beset only their authors. So do they await anything except the precedent of the ancients? Yet you will never find any change in Allah’s precedent, and you will never find any revision in Allah’s precedent.
— Ali Quli Qarai
On account of their arrogance in the land and their plotting of Evil, but the plotting of Evil will hem in only the authors thereof. Now are they but looking for the way the ancients were dealt with? But no change wilt thou find in Allah's way (of dealing): no turning off wilt thou find in Allah's way (of dealing).
