So that the Messenger may warn with it those who are (truly) alive (and so can reason, and see, and hear the truth), and that the word (of Divine judgment after evidence and admonition) may be completed against the unbelievers
That it may warn everyone who is alive of heart and that the Word may prove True concerning the rejecters. (That violation of the Divine Laws brings Requital in both lives)
Qur’an is revealed to guide every living person [who is not thoughtless and motionless like a statue] to the right path and to disclose the irrationality of the disbelievers
Faridul Haque
To warn the living *, and to prove the Word against disbelievers. (Only the believers are deemed alive in Allah’s sight.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
that he may warn the living, and so that Judgement may be passed against the unbelievers
(It has been revealed) so that he (- the Prophet) may warn those who are still (somewhat spiritually) alive (and so capable of receiving and responding to the call of truth), and (that) the verdict (of condemnation) be justified against the disbelievers
That he or it (Muhammad SAW or the Quran) may give warning to him who is living (a healthy minded the believer), and that Word (charge) may be justified against the disbelievers (dead, as they reject the warnings)
To warn the living and justify the word against the deniers of the reality.
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
That it may warn him who is alive and the Word may be proved against the disbelievers.
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
To use it as the means for a profitable end and to exhort those who are living and spiritually receptive to Allah's commands and to warn those who are spiritually dead to alter their irreverent course of action when warned of its danger, wherefore infidelity shall be justly laid to their charge