Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
any guardian or helper.
174 O mankind!
Certainly a proof 1 has come to you
from your Lord,
and We have sent down to you a manifest light.2
175 As for those who have faith in Allah,
and hold fast to Him,
He will admit them to His mercy and grace,
and He will guide them on a straight path to Him.
176 They ask you for a ruling.
Say, ‘Allah gives you a ruling
concerning the kalālah:3
If a man dies and he has no children [or parents],
but has a sister,
for her shall be a half of what he leaves,
and he shall inherit from her
if she has no children.
If there be two sisters,
then they shall receive two-thirds of what he leaves.
But if there be [several] brothers and sisters,
then for the male shall be the like of
the share of two females.
Allah explains [the laws] for you
lest you should go astray,
and Allah has knowledge of all things.’
1 That is, the Prophet Muḥammad (ṣ), or the Qur’ān.
2 The Qur’ān, according to Mujāhid, Qatādah and Suddī. The wilāyah of Imām ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib (‘a) according to traditions from Imām Ja‘far b. Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq (‘a) and Imām Muḥammad al-Bāqir (‘a). See the commentaries of Furāt al-Kūfī and al-‘Ayyāshī under this verse.
