Rowwad Translation Center — 289

17:67 When hardship strikes you at sea, you forget all those whom you invoke besides Him[1]. Then when He brings you safe to the land, you turn away. Mankind is ever ungrateful.

17:68 Do you feel secure that He will not make some part of the land swallow you up, or send against you a storm of stones? Thereupon you will find none to protect you.

17:69 Or do you feel secure that He will not send you back [to sea] once again, and send upon you a violent storm to drown you on account of your disbelief? Thereupon you will find none to help you against Us[1].

17:70 We have honored the children of Adam, carried them on land and sea, provided for them good things[1] and favored them above many of those whom We have created.

17:71 On the Day when We will summon every community with its leader[1]. Those who are given their record in their right hand will read their record [happily]; they will not be wronged even as much as the thread of a date stone.

17:72 But whoever was blind [from the truth][1] in this life will be even blinder in the Hereafter and further astray from the right way.

17:73 They were about to tempt you away from what We have revealed to you [O Prophet] so that you would fabricate something else and attribute it to Us; then they would have surely taken you as a close friend.

17:74 Had We not made you stand firm, you would nearly have inclined to them a little.

17:75 In that case, We would have made you taste double punishment, both in this life and after death. Thereupon you would have found no helper against Us.