Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
60 Have you not regarded those who claim
that they believe in what has been sent down to you,
and what was sent down before you?
They desire to seek the judgment of the Rebel,1
though they were commanded to defy it,
and Satan desires to lead them astray
into far error.
61 And when they are told,
‘Come to what Allah has sent down
and [come] to the Apostle,’
you see the hypocrites keep away from you
aversely.
62 But how will it be when an affliction visits them
because of what their hands have sent ahead?
Then they will come to you, swearing by Allah:
‘We desired nothing but benevolence and comity.’
63 They are the ones whom Allah knows
as to what is in their hearts.
So let them alone, and advise them,
and speak to them concerning themselves
far-reaching words.
64Wedidnotsendanyapostle
but to be obeyed by Allah’s leave.
Had they, when they wronged themselves,
come to you and pleaded to Allah for forgiveness,
and the Apostle had pleaded for forgiveness for them,
they would have surely found Allah
all-clement, all-merciful.
65 But no, by your Lord! They will not believe
1 See the footnote at 2:256.
