Surah 83. Al-Mutaffifin

and whenever they return to people of their own kind,¹² they return full of jests;

  - Mohammad Asad

Lit., "to their [own] people".

When they returned to their own people they returned jesting.

  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

And when they returned to their own folk, they returned jetting;

  - Marmaduke Pickthall

and whenever they see those [who believe,] they say, "Behold, these [people] have indeed gone astray!"

  - Mohammad Asad

And when they saw the believers, they used to say: "These are the people who have surely gone astray,"

  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

And when they saw them they said: Lo! these have gone astray.

  - Marmaduke Pickthall

And, withal, they have no call to watch over [the beliefs of] others....¹³

  - Mohammad Asad

Lit., "they have not been sent as watchers over them" - implying that none who is devoid of faith has the right to criticize the faith of any of his fellow-men.

although they had not been sent as guardians over them.

  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

Yet they were not sent as guardians over them.

  - Marmaduke Pickthall

But on the Day [of Judgment], they who had attained to faith will [be able to] laugh at the [erstwhile] deniers of the truth:¹⁴

  - Mohammad Asad

Speaking of the righteous, the Qur'an repeatedly stresses that on the Day of Judgment God "shall have removed whatever unworthy thoughts or feelings (ghill) may have been [lingering] in their bosoms" ( 7:43 and 15:47 ). Since an expression of vengeful joy on the part of the blest at the calamity which in the hereafter will befall the erstwhile sinners would certainly fall within the category of "unworthy feelings", their "laughing" can only have a metaphorical meaning, denoting no more than a realization of their own good fortune.

On that Day, the believers shall be laughing at the unbelievers,

  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

This day it is those who believe who have the laugh of disbelievers,

  - Marmaduke Pickthall

[for, resting in paradise] on couches, they will look on [and say to themselves]:

  - Mohammad Asad

as they recline on couches and gaze at them:

  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

On high couches, gazing.

  - Marmaduke Pickthall

"Are these deniers of the truth being [thus] requited for [aught but] what they were wont to do?"

  - Mohammad Asad

"Have not the unbelievers been fully rewarded for what they used to do?"

  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

Are not the disbelievers paid for what they used to do?

  - Marmaduke Pickthall