Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

should you apply reason.
119 Ah! You are the ones who bear love towards them,
while they do not love you,
though you believe in all the Books;
and when they meet you, they say, ‘We believe,’
but when they are alone,
they bite their fingertips out of rage at you.
Say, ‘Die of your rage!’
Indeed Allah knows best what is in the breasts.
120 If some good should befall you, it upsets them,
but if some ill should befall you, they rejoice at it.
Yet if you are patient and Godwary,
their guile will not harm you in any way.
Indeed Allah comprehends what they do.

121 When you left your family at dawn
to settle the faithful in their positions for battle
— and Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing.
122 When two groups among you were about
to lose courage,
— though Allah is their guardian,
and in Allah let all the faithful put their trust.
123 Certainly Allah helped you at Badr,
when you were abased [in the enemy’s eyes].
So be wary of Allah so that you may give thanks.
124 When you were saying to the faithful,
‘Is it not enough for you
that your Lord should aid you
with three thousand angels sent down?’
125 Yes, if you are steadfast and Godwary,

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Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation, Islamic College for Advance Studies Press (ICAS), London (Distributed by The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur’ān, Qom, Iran), Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 20 May. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=123