Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
and We bring you as a witness to them?
42 On that day
those who were faithless
and [who] disobeyed the Apostle will wish
the earth were levelled with them,
and they will not conceal any matter from Allah.
43 O you who have faith!
Do not approach prayer when you are intoxicated,
[not] until you know what you are saying,
nor [enter mosques] in the state of ritual impurity
— except while passing through —
until you have washed yourselves.
But if you are sick or on a journey,
or any of you has come from the toilet,
or you have touched women,1
and you cannot find water,
then make your ablution on clean ground
and wipe a part of your faces and your hands.
Indeed Allah is all-excusing, all-forgiving.
44 Have you not regarded those who were given
a share of the Book,
who purchase error
and desire that you [too] should lose the way?
45 But Allah knows your enemies better,
and Allah suffices as guardian,
and Allah suffices as helper.
46 Among the Jews are those who
1 That is, if you have performed sexual intercourse.
