Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
and should an affliction visit you, he says,
‘It was certainly Allah’s blessing
that I did not accompany them!’
73 But should a grace from Allah come to you,
he will surely say,
as if there were no affection between you and him,
‘I wish I were with them
so that I had achieved a great success!’
74 Let those fight in the way of Allah
who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter;
and whoever fights in the way of Allah,
and then is slain, or he subdues [the enemy],
soon We shall give him a great reward.
75 Why should you not fight in the way of Allah
and the abased men, women,
and children,
who say, ‘Our Lord,
bring us out of this town
whose people are wrongdoers,
and appoint for us a guardian from You,
and appoint for us a helper from You’?
76 Those who have faith fight in the way of Allah,
and those who are faithless
fight in the way of the Rebel.
So fight the friends of Satan;
indeed the stratagems of Satan are always flimsy.
77 Have you not regarded those who were told,
‘Keep your hands off [from warfare],
and maintain the prayer, and give the zakāt’?
But when fighting was prescribed for them,