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

unless he brings us an offering consumed by fire,’
say, ‘Apostles before me certainly brought you
manifest signs and what you speak of.
Then why did you kill them,
should you be truthful?’
184 But if they deny you,
then before you [other] apostles have been denied,
who came with manifest signs, holy writs,
and an illuminating scripture.
185 Every soul shall taste death,
and you will indeed be paid your full rewards
on the Day of Resurrection.
Whoever is delivered from the Fire
and admitted to paradise
has certainly succeeded.
The life of this world is nothing
but the wares of delusion.
186 You will surely be tested
in your possessions and your souls,
and you will surely hear
from those who were given the Book before you
and from the polytheists
much affront;
but if you are patient and Godwary,
that is indeed the steadiest of courses.
187 When Allah made a covenant
with those who were given the Book:
‘You shall explain it for the people,
and you shall not conceal it,’
they cast it behind their backs

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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 29 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=134