Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
Your Lord has made mercy incumbent upon Himself:
whoever of you commits an evil [deed]
out of ignorance
and then repents after that and reforms,
then He is indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.’
55 Thus do We elaborate 1 the signs,
so that the way of the guilty may be exposed.
56 Say, ‘I have been forbidden to worship
those whom you invoke besides Allah.’
Say, ‘I do not follow your desires,
for then I will have gone astray,
and I will not be among the [rightly] guided.’
57 Say, ‘Indeed I stand on a manifest proof
from my Lord
and you have denied it.
What you seek to hasten is not up to me.
Judgement belongs only to Allah;
He expounds the truth
and He is the best of judges.’
58 Say, ‘If what you seek to hasten were with me,
the matter would surely have been decided
between you and me,
and Allah knows best the wrongdoers.’
59 With Him are the treasures of the Unseen;2
no one knows them except Him.
He knows whatever there is in land and sea.
No leaf falls without His knowing it,
