Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
So in Allah let all the faithful put their trust.
161 A prophet may not breach his trust,
and whoever breaches his trust
will bring his breaches on the Day of Resurrection;
then every soul shall be recompensed fully
for what it has earned,
and they will not be wronged.
162 Is he who follows [the course of] Allah’s pleasure
like him who earns Allah’s displeasure
and whose refuge is hell,
an evil destination?
163 They have ranks with Allah,
and Allah sees best what they do.
164 Allah certainly favoured the faithful
when He raised up among them an apostle
from among themselves
to recite to them His signs and to purify them,
and to teach them the Book and wisdom,
and earlier they had indeed been in manifest error.
165 What, when an affliction visits you
— while you have inflicted twice as much —
do you say, ‘How is this?’!
Say, ‘This is from your own souls.’
Indeed Allah has power over all things.
166 What befell you on the day when the two hosts met,
was by Allah’s permission,
so that He may ascertain the faithful,
167 and ascertain the hypocrites.
[When] they were told: ‘Come,
fight in the way of Allah, or defend [yourselves],