Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
a world of gold will not be accepted from any of them
should he offer it for ransom.
For such there will be a painful punishment,
and they will have no helpers.
92 You will never attain piety
until you spend out of what you hold dear,
and whatever you may spend of anything,
Allah indeed knows it.
93 All food was lawful to the Children of Israel
except what Israel 1 had forbidden himself
before the Torah was sent down.
Say, ‘Bring the Torah, and read it,
should you be truthful.’
94 So whoever fabricates a lie against Allah
after that
— it is they who are the wrongdoers.
95 Say, ‘Allah has spoken the truth;
so follow the creed of Abraham, a ḥanīf,
and he was not one of the polytheists.
96 Indeed the first house to be setup for mankind
is the one at Bakkah,2
blessed and a guidance for all nations.
97 In it are manifest signs [and] Abraham’s Station,
and whoever enters it shall be secure.
And it is the duty of mankind toward Allah
to make pilgrimage to the House
1 That is Jacob (‘a).
2 The Holy Mosque or the city of Makkah, or the territory where they stand.
