Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
and that most of you are transgressors?’
60 Say, ‘Shall I inform you
concerning something worse than that
as a requital from Allah?
Those whom Allah has cursed
and with whom He is wrathful,
and turned some of whom into apes and swine,
and worshippers 1 of the Rebel!
Such are in a worse situation,
and more astray from the right way.’
61 When they come to you,
they say, ‘We believe.’
Certainly they enter with disbelief
and leave with it,
and Allah knows best
as to what they have been concealing.
62 You see many of them actively engaged in sin
and aggression,
and consuming illicit gains.
Surely, evil is what they have been doing.
63 Why do not the rabbis and the scribes forbid them
from sinful speech
and consuming illicit gains?
Surely, evil is what they have been working.
64 The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is tied up.’
Tied up be their hands,
and cursed be they for what they say!
Rather, His hands are wide open:
He bestows as He wishes.
1 Or ‘slaves.’
