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

Allah has graced those who wage jihād
with their possessions and their persons
by a degree over those who sit back;
yet to each Allah has promised the best reward,
and Allah has graced
those who wage jihād
over those who sit back
with a great reward:
96 ranks from Him, forgiveness, and mercy,
and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.
97 Indeed, those whom the angels take away
while they are wronging themselves,
they ¹ ask, ‘What state were you in?’
They reply, ‘We were abased in the land.’
They say, ‘Was not Allah’s earth vast enough
so that you might migrate in it?’
The refuge of such shall be hell,
and it is an evil destination.
98 Except the abased among men,
women and children,
who have neither access to any means
nor are guided to any way.
99 Maybe Allah will excuse them,
for Allah is all-excusing, all-forgiving.
100 Whoever migrates in the way of Allah
will find many havens and plenitude in the earth.
And whoever leaves his home
migrating toward Allah and His Apostle,
and is then overtaken by death,