(31) We have appointed only angels to be masters of the fire, and their number we have appointed only as a trial for the unbelievers, that those who were given the Book may have certainty, and that those who believe may increase in belief, and that those who were given the Book and those who believe may not be in doubt, and that those in whose hearts there is sickness, and the unbelievers, may say: "What did God intend by this as a similitude?"

Kuma ba Mu sanya ma'abũta wutã (wãto matsaranta) ba, fãce malã'iku, kuma ba Mu sanya adadinsu (gõma sha tara) ba, fãce dõmin fitina ga waɗanda suka kãfirta domin waɗanda aka bai wa littãfi su sãmi yaƙĩni kuma waɗanda suka yi ĩmãni su ƙãra ĩmãni, kuma waɗanda aka bai wa littãfi da mũminai bã zã su yi shakka ba, kuma domin wa ɗanda a cikin zukatansu akwai wata cuta da kãfirai su ce: "Mẽ Allah Yake nufi da wannan, ya kasance misãli?"
