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

they said, ‘If we knew any fighting,
surely we would have followed you.’
That day they were nearer to unfaith than to faith.
They say with their mouths
what is not in their hearts,
and Allah knows best whatever they conceal.
168 Those who said of their brethren,
while they themselves sat back:
‘Had they obeyed us,
they would not have been killed.’
Say, ‘Then keep death off from yourselves,
should you be truthful.’
169 Do not suppose those who were slain
in the way of Allah
to be dead;
rather they are living
and provided for near their Lord,
170 exulting
in what Allah has given them out of His grace,
and rejoicing for those who have not yet joined them
from [those left] behind them
that they will have no fear,
nor will they grieve.
171 They rejoice in Allah’s blessing and grace,
and that Allah does not waste
the reward of the faithful.
172 Those who responded to Allah and the Apostle
[even] after they had been wounded
— for those of them who have been virtuous
and Godwary