Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
16 Those who say, ‘Our Lord!
Indeed we have faith.
So forgive us our sins,
and save us from the punishment of the Fire.’
17 Patient and truthful,
obedient and charitable,
and pleading [Allah’s] forgiveness at dawns.
18 Allah bears witness that there is no god except Him
— and [so do] the angels
and those who possess knowledge —
maintainer of justice,
there is no god but Him,
the Almighty, the All-wise.
19 Indeed, with Allah religion is Islām,1
and those who were given the Book did not differ
except after knowledge had come to them,
out of envy among themselves.
And whoever defies Allah’s signs
[should know that] Allah is swift at reckoning.
20 So if they argue with you,
say, ‘I have submitted my will to Allah,
and [so has] he who follows me.’
And say to those who were given the Book
and the uninstructed ones,2
‘Do you submit?’
If they submit, they will certainly be guided;
1 Or ‘religion is submission [to Allah].’
2 That is, the Arabs, who unlike the Jews and the Christians did not possess any scripture and had not received any scriptural instruction.
