Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
‘You shall be overcome and mustered toward hell,
and it is an evil resting place.’
13 There was certainly a sign for you
in the two hosts that met:
one host fighting in the way of Allah
and the other faithless,
who saw them visibly twice as many.1
Allah strengthens with His help
whomever He wishes.
There is indeed a moral in that
for those who have insight.
14 To mankind has been made to seem decorous
the love of [worldly] desires,
including women and children,
accumulated piles
of gold and silver,
horses of mark, livestock, and farms.
Those are the wares of the life of this world;
but Allah — with Him is a good destination.
15 Say,
‘Shall I inform you of something better than that?
For those who are Godwary
there will be gardens near their Lord,
with streams running in them,
to remain in them [forever],
and chaste mates,
and Allah’s pleasure.’
And Allah sees best the servants.
1 Or ‘whom they [i.e. the faithful] saw visibly twice as many.’
