Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
He has made mercy incumbent upon Himself.
He will surely gather you on the Day of Resurrection,
in which there is no doubt.
Those who have ruined their souls 1
will not have faith.’
13 To Him belongs whatever abides in the night
and the day,
and He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.
14 Say, ‘Shall I take for guardian [anyone] other than Allah,
the originator of the heavens and the earth,
who feeds and is not fed?’
Say, ‘I have been commanded
to be the first of those who submit [to Allah],’
and never be one of the polytheists.
15 Say, ‘Indeed, should I disobey my Lord, I fear
the punishment of a tremendous day.’
16 Whoever is spared of it on that day,
He has certainly been merciful to him,
and that is the manifest success.
17 Should Allah visit you with some distress
there is no one to remove it except Him;
and should He bring you some good,
then He has power over all things.
18 And He is the All-dominant over His servants,
and He is the All-wise, the All-aware.
19 Say, ‘What thing is greatest as witness?’
Say, ‘Allah!
[He is] witness between me and you,
1 Or ‘themselves.’
